Happiness, Like Water: Stories - Brossura

Chinelo Okparanta

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847088309 ISBN 13: 9781847088307

Casa editrice: Granta, 2013

Riassunto

In this debut collection, Chinelo Okparanta introduces us to families burdened equally by the past and the future. Here, we meet a childless couple with very different desires; a college professor comforting a troubled student; a mother seeking refuge from an abusive husband; an embittered spinster recalling the loss of a dear childhood friend; and a young woman waiting to join her lover abroad. High expectations - whether of success in Nigeria, or the dream of opportunity and accomplishment in America - consume them. In language that is both raw and elegant, Okparanta's stories are often told from the point of a view of a child - a little girl, an adult daughter. Her closely observed characters populate stories that offer a clear-eyed view of an often traumatic family life, questioning the purpose of their time on earth, and whether there is a hereafter, or a different kind of afterlife altogether, outside of Port Harcourt. Happiness, Like Water heralds the arrival of a fearless and sensitive literary voice.

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Recensione

This is an extremely promising debut: the handling of tone and perspective is assured; the prose lucid and elegant throughout. --Financial Times

Deeply affecting and beautifully evocative, Okparanta's novel is the perfect book to lose yourself in. --Pride

This collection knocked me out because the stories are quiet and understated and lucid and gather up their power almost without the reader realizing it, then they break your heart, just like that. Such subtle and open and strong writing. --The Millions

L'autore

CHINELO OKPARANTA was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria and moved with her family to the US at the age of ten. She received her BSc from Pennsylvania State University, her MA from Rutgers University and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently teaches at the University of Iowa. Her work has been published in Granta magazine. She was the featured New Voices author in the Spring online edition at granta.com

http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/New-Voice-Runs-Girl

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• Editore: Granta
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1847088309
• ISBN 13: 9781847088307
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208