Lidia Yuknavitch ist eine Autorin, deren Werke tief in Körperlichkeit, Trauma und die Suche nach Identität eintauchen. Ihre Prosa, oft roh und poetisch, dringt mit unerschrockener Ehrlichkeit in komplexe menschliche Erfahrungen ein. Yuknavitch konzentriert sich auf Themen des Überlebens, der Weiblichkeit und der Gefahren des Erzählens und bietet den Lesern ein intensives und transformatives Leseerlebnis.
Lidia Yuknavitch erzählt in ihrem Memoir „In Wasser geschrieben“ von ihrem turbulenten Leben, geprägt von Missbrauch, Sucht und Verlust. Sie beschreibt ihre Reise als Außenseiterin, die Kreativität und Liebe findet. Das Buch thematisiert Sexualität, Gewalt und die Auswirkungen extremer Trauer auf die Identität einer Frau.
In einer nicht allzu fernen Zukunft ist die Erde ein düsterer Ort, heimgesucht von mörderischen Kriegen, zerstört von den Menschen selbst und gewaltigen Naturkatastrophen. Einigen wenigen ist es gelungen, sich auf eine Raumstation zu retten, um von hier aus die letzten Reserven der Erde zu Plündern. Herrscher dieser neuen, trostlosen Welt ist ein ebenso tyrannischer wie blutrünstiger Sektenführer. Doch eine Gruppe junger Rebellen lehnt sich auf gegen das eiserne Regime, angespornt von der charismatischen Mädchen-Kriegerin Joan, die über ganz eigene Kräfte verfügt und deren Geschichte das Schicksal zukünftiger Generationen bestimmen wird.
Tracing the Writings of War in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction
Exploring the concept of war through a discursive lens, this book examines late 20th Century novels that reinterpret and demilitarize traditional narratives of conflict. By analyzing these literary works, it challenges conventional perceptions of violence and invites readers to reconsider the implications of war in contemporary society. The focus on allegory reveals deeper themes and critiques, offering a fresh perspective on the complexities of warfare and its representation in literature.
This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of extreme grief on a young woman’s developing sexuality that some define as untraditional because of her attraction to both men and women. Her emergence as a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey of addiction, self-destruction, and ultimately survival that finally comes in the shape of love and motherhood.
The author explores the status of being a misfit as something to be embraced, and social misfits as being individuals of value who have a place in society, in a work that encourages people who have had difficulty finding their way to pursue their goals.
LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Bustle and Lit HubA fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her characters are scarred by the unchecked hungers of others and themselves, yet determined to find salvation within lives that can feel beyond their control. In novels such as The Small Backs of Children and The Book of Joan, she has captivated readers with stories of visceral power. Now, in Verge, she offers a shard-sharp mosaic portrait of human resilience on the margins.The landscape of Verge is peopled with characters who are innocent and imperfect, wise and endangered: an eight-year-old black-market medical courier, a restless lover haunted by memories of his mother, a teenage girl gazing out her attic window at a nearby prison, all of them wounded but grasping toward transcendence. Clear-eyed yet inspiring, Verge challenges us with moments of uncomfortable truth, even as it urges us to place our faith not in the flimsy guardrails of society but in the memories held--and told--by our own individual bodies.
A contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud's famous case study from the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Joan. Introduced by Chuck Palahniuk
From the visionary author of the internationally bestselling The Book of Joan comes an epic novel tracing the construction of a colossal statue - and the lives of two centuries of immigrants navigating its turbulent wake
A fiercely provocative novel, exploring the treacherous borders between war and sex, love and art, from the author of The Book of Joan and The Chronology of Water