Call me Zebra: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi - Brossura

Van Der Vliet Oloomi, Azareen

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ISBN 10: 1846884470 ISBN 13: 9781846884474

Casa editrice: Alma Classics, 2018

Riassunto

After the death of her father, an exiled Iranian man of letters, the bookish twenty-two-year-old Zebra finds herself alone in New York and decides to retrace the steps of her traumatic flight with her family from their homeland in the 1980s, hoping that in the process she will be inspired to write a major manifesto on literature. Her first stop is Barcelona, where she meets the Italian Ludo, who becomes her lover, intellectual sparring partner and travelling companion in her picaresque meanderings around Catalonia. A natural-born raconteur, Zebra takes the reader on a irresistible journey through her thoughts, as she conceives elaborate theories about art and is increasingly convinced that her mother has been reincarnated as a cockatoo. Sparkling with wit and mischief and brimming with imaginative vignettes and unconventional musings, Call Me Zebra is a riotous, erudite, unpredictable novel about literature, lust and dislocation.

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Recensione:

'It's all my blood, this black poison! / I am the sinister mirror / Where the Fury sees herself.' This could also be an ode to the furiously introspective, fiercely literary young narrator of Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's second novel, Call Me Zebra. [...] In this ferociously intelligent novel, Van der Vliet Oloomi [...] relays Zebra's brainy, benighted struggles as a tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges. --Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review

Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you. --The Wall Street Journal

Acerbic wit and a love of literature color this picaresque novel...By turns, hilarious and poignant, painting a magnetic portrait of a young woman you can't help but want to know more about. --Harper's Bazaar

L'autore:

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the novels Fra Keeler and Call Me Zebra, and an Assistant Professor in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame. She is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Writers' Award, a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, and the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, as well as residency fellowships from MacDowell and Ledig House. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, Guernica, Granta, BOMB, and elsewhere. She has lived in New York, Los Angeles, Tehran, Dubai, Valencia, Barcelona, and currently splits her time between South Bend, Indiana and Florence, Italy.

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• Editore: Alma Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1846884470
• ISBN 13: 9781846884474
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320