Silence & Song - Couverture souple

Thon, Melanie R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1573660531 ISBN 13 : 9781573660532

Editeur : Fiction Collective Two, 2015

Synopsis

Immigrants lost in the blistering expanse of the Sonoran Desert, problem bears, bats pollinating saguaros, a Good Samaritan filling tanks at emergency water stations, and the terrified runaway boy who shoots him pierce the heart and mind of Rosana Derais. "Vanishings," the first story in Silence & Song, is a love letter, a prayer to these strangers whose lives penetrate and transform Rosana's own sorrow.

In "Translations," the prose poem connecting the two longer fictions, child refugees at a multilingual literacy center in Salt Lake City discover the merciful "translation" of dance and pantomime.

The convergence of two disparate events--a random murder in Seattle and the nuclear accident at Chernobyl--catalyze the startling, eruptive form of the concluding piece,"requiem: home: and the rain, after." Narrated in first person by the killer's sister and plural first person by the "liquidators" who come to the Evacuation Zone to bury entire villages poisoned by radioactive fallout, "requiem" navigates the immediate trauma of murder and environmental disaster; personal and global devastation; and the remarkable recovery of the miraculously diverse more-than-human world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Recent books by Melanie Rae Thon include The Voice of the River and In This Light: New and Selected Stories. She is also the author of the novels Sweet Hearts, Meteors in August, and Iona Moon and the story collections Girls in the Grass and First, Body. Thon's work has been included in Best American Short Stories, three Pushcart Prize anthologies, and O. Henry Prize Stories. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award, the Gina Berriault Award, the Utah Book Award, and a writer's residency from the Lannan Foundation. In 2009, she was the Virgil C. Aldrich fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fiction Collective Two
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1573660531
• ISBN 13: 9781573660532
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible