Montecore (Signed First Edition)

Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Author), Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0307270955 / ISBN 13: 9780307270955

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2011

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New York: Knopf [2011]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy, very fine in all respects. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and dated by him in the month of publication, April 2011. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. All books shipped in sturdy boxes. Smoke-free enviornment. Purchased new and opened only for author to sign. Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in Sweden in 1978, is the author of two novels and one collection of plays and short stories. His first novel, One Eye Red, received the Boras Tidning Award for best literary debut. His second, Montecore, won several literary awards including the Swedish Radio Award for best novel of the year. Khemiri has also received the PO Enquist Literary Prize for the most promising young European writer. He currently divides his time between Stockholm and Berlin, and thus signed copies are difficult to find in the USA. His American debut. 0.0. N° de réf. du vendeur 04-2011-PP32

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Titre : Montecore (Signed First Edition)

Éditeur : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Date d'édition : 2011

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : New

Etat de la jaquette : New

Signé : Signed by Author(s)

Edition : 1st Edition.

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Synopsis :

Book by Khemiri Jonas Hassen

Revue de presse:

"Funny, ambitious, and inventive. Also black: rage and tragedy pulse beneath the fireworks...a potent chemical mix." —The New York Times Book Review


"A hard-hitting and resonant tale of the modern immigrant experience in Sweden." —The Boston Globe
 

"Montecore brings a metafictional slyness to the kind of immigrant narrative that many Americans will immediately recognize with its elements of aspiration, disillusion, and filial rebellion...[It's] ambitious in the best sense." —New York Journal of Books

"Montecore deals in the sparkling tropes pf contemporary fiction but very successfully grounds them in old-fashioned familial anguish. With style to spare and a keen take on the political turmoil of a region recently thrown into high-media focus, Montecore shows a young novelist swinging for the fences and hitting hard."
"To those whose experience of Swedish fiction has been as bleak as Nordic winter, Montecore arrives as a sunny revelation. An exuberant account...the novel in fact challenges assumptions about Swedish identity...[A] rollicking tale." —Barnes & Noble
"Montecore is brilliant. Like its title—an invented creolized noun equal parts Arabic, French, Swedish, Siegfried & Roy, and Dungeons & Dragons—Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is itself a thrillingly hybrid creature: an immigrant story, a coming-of-age tale, an epistolary epic, an indictment of Swedish racism and nationalism, a meditation on storytelling and translation. . .Above all, however, this is a beautiful novel, a bewitching novel, as funny as it is heartbreaking, as self-aware as it is self-effacing, and certainly the best book that I've read in a long time." —Rattawut Lapcharoensap, author of Sightseeing
 

"[A] vibrant story of culture, class, and family history enlivened by Khemiri’s subtle wit and voice."
—Publishers Weekly


"Amusing and multilayered. . .Khemiri adds a distinctive and quirky voice—actually several of them—to contemporary literature." —Kirkus (starred)