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An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth

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Availability:In StockContributor:Anna MoschovakisPublish date:2024-11-19Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Soft SkullISBN-13:9781593767839ISBN-10:1593767838UPC:9781593767839Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Dystopian, Women, PsychologicalSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC7VGS4JSW
A formidable, uncanny, and utterly unique new work from accomplished novelist and poet, Anna Moschovakis, whose translation of David Diop's Fr?re d'?me (At Night All Blood Is Black, Pushkin and FSG) won the 2021 International Booker Prize

After a seismic event leaves the world shattered, an unnamed narrator at the end of a mediocre acting career struggles to regain the ability to walk on ground that is in constant motion. When her alluring younger housemate, Tala, disappears, what had begun as an obsession grows into an impulse to kill, forcing the narrator to confront the meaning of the ruptures that have suddenly upended her life. The drive to find and eliminate Tala becomes an existential pursuit, leading back in time and out into a desolate, dust-covered city, where the narrator is targeted by charismatic "healing" ideologues with uncertain motives. Torn between a gnawing desire to reckon with the forces that have made her and an immediate need to find the stability to survive, she is forced to question familiar figurations of light, shadow, authenticity, resistance, and the limits of personal transformation in an alienated, alienating world.

Darkly comic, deeply resonant, and hallucinatory in tone, An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth will appeal to readers of Annie Ernaux, Dionne Brand, and Sheila Heti.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Soft SkullISBN-13:9781593767839ISBN-10:1593767838UPC:9781593767839Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Dystopian, Women, PsychologicalSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC7VGS4JSW
ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS is a poet and translator whose most recent novel is Participation (2022, Coffee House Press). Other books include the novel Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love, and poetry books They, We Will Get Into Trouble for This and You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has also translated Albert Cossery's The Jokers, Annie Ernaux's The Possession, and various others. She is a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and co-founder of Bushel Collective, an experimental mixed-use storefront space in Delhi, NY.
Publisher: Soft Skull

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