Idra Novey schafft Erzählungen, die sich mit der Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen auseinandersetzen und verborgene Motivationen aufdecken. Ihr Werk wird für seinen scharfen Stil und seine tiefgründigen Charakterstudien gefeiert und thematisiert oft Identität und die Feinheiten der Kommunikation. Novey verwebt meisterhaft Geschichten, die den Leser in das intime Leben ihrer Charaktere ziehen. Ihre Prosa zeichnet sich durch Sensibilität und tiefgründige Einblicke in die menschliche Psyche aus.
Exploring the quest for a meaningful existence, this collection of poems delves into the contrasts between rural and urban life amid the challenges of a rapidly warming planet. The verses reflect on personal and collective struggles, capturing the essence of human experience in the face of environmental change. Through vivid imagery and thought-provoking themes, the poems invite readers to contemplate their place in the world and the impact of their choices.
'Novey fully renders the inarticulable parts of artmaking - the antagonism of an artist's material, the pleasure in that difficulty, the way it troubles tidy ideas of legacy.' - Raven Leilani
Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation A vivid, "mesmerizing" (New York Times Magazine) portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal, cinematic images that pan wide as deftly as they narrow into intimate focus. Time is a thread come unspooled: pain arrives before the wound, and the dead wait for sunrise. Abdolmalekian resists definitive separations between cause and effect, life and death, or heaven and hell, and challenges our sense of what is fixed and what is unsettled and permeable. Though the speakers in these poems are witnesses to the deforming effects of grief and memory, they remain alive to curiosity, to the pleasure of companionship, and to other ways of being and seeing. Lean Against This Late Hour illuminates the images we conjure in the face of abandonment and ruin, and finds them by turns frightening, bewildering, ethereal, and defiant. "This time," a disembodied voice commands, "send us a prophet who only listens."
"On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what happened with the senator while they were dating"--
Die brasilianische Autorin Beatriz Yagoda ist verschwunden, die Umstände sind unerklärlich. Emma Neufeld, ihre Übersetzerin, lässt alles stehen und liegen und nimmt einen Flug nach Rio de Janeiro. Der Schlüssel zu Beatriz‘ Verschwinden ist in ihren Büchern zu finden, vermutet sie, und die kennt sie besser als alle anderen. Auf der Suche nach der Autorin entdeckt Emma Unglaubliches: Beatriz soll beim Online-Poker hohe Schulden gemacht haben. Und dann erhält Emma unmissverständliche Drohungen. - Eine lebhafte, liebevolle Geschichte über Sprache und Literatur zwischen den zwielichtigen Gassen Rios und den einsamen Stränden Brasiliens – poetisch und spannend, immer mit dem Blick auf die versteckte Bedeutung der Dinge.
Exploring the theme of confinement in the twenty-first century, Idra Novey's second collection delves into the realities of jails, courthouses, and caves. Through her vivid imagery, she reflects on the expanding prison complex and its impact on civilians who navigate this system daily. The collection invites readers to consider the deeper implications of confinement and the lives intertwined with it.
