The Guardian of Surfaces - Couverture souple

Al-Essa, Bothayna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1917254059 ISBN 13 : 9781917254052

Editeur : Selkies House Limited, 2024

Synopsis

National Book Award Finalist.

At all times, we must stay on the surface of language. The surface! Beware of wading into meaning. Do you know what happens to people who sink into meaning?An eternal mania strangles them and they're left unfit to live. You are a guardian of surfaces. The future of humanity depends on you.

T H E F I R S T C E N S O R

The new book censor has not slept soundly in weeks. By day, he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish-allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night, pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter, and the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues to beckon, he descends into a netherworld of resistance fighters, undercover booksellers, and outlaw librarians trying to save their history and culture.

Reckoning with the global threat to free speech and the bleak future it all but guarantees, Bothayna Al-Essa marries the steely dystopia of Orwell's 1984 with the madcap absurdity of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, resulting in a dreadful twist worthy of Kafka. The Guardian of Surfaces is a warning call and a love letter to stories and the delicious act of losing oneself in them.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bothayna Al-Essa is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than ten novels and several children's books. She is the founder of Takween, a bookshop and publisher of critically acclaimed works in Kuwait. The Guardian of Surfaces is her third novel to appear in English, after Lost in Mecca and All That I Want to Forget.

Ranya Abdelrahman is a translator of Arabic literature into English. Her work has appeared in ArabLit Quarterly and The Common, and is the translator of Out of Time, a short story collection by iconic Palestinian author Samira Azzam. She lives in Dubai.

Sawad Hussain is an award-winning translator from Arabic whose work has been recognised by English PEN, the Anglo-Omani Society and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, among others. She is a judge for the Palestine Book Awards and the 2023 National Translation Award. She lives in Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Selkies House Limited
• Date d'édition: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1917254059
• ISBN 13: 9781917254052
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible