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Oldladyvoice (Paperback)
Elisa Victoria; Translated by Charlotte Whittle
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While her mother is in the hospital with a grave but unnamed
illness, Marina spends the summer with her grandmother, waiting to
hear whether she'll get to go home or be bundled off, newly
orphaned, to a convent school. There are no rules at Grandma's, but
that also means there are no easy ways to fend off the visions of
sex and violence that torment and titillate the girl. Presenting a
unique and vivid take on the coming-of-age novel, Oldladyvoice
reimagines childhood through the eyes of its one-of-a-kind,
hilarious, perceptive and endearing narrator.
The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his
record-breaking climb of Mount Everest in this profound and
free-flowing memoir-an intellectual and spiritual journey that
moves from the earth's highest peak to the soul's deepest reaches.
The world's fastest mountain climber, ultra-runner, and
mountaineer, Kilian Jornet has broken nearly every mountaineering
record in the world and twice been named National Geographic
Adventurer of the Year. In 2018 he burnished that legend, setting
the FKT (fastest known time) ascending and descending Mount
Everest-in twenty-six hours from base camp-without bottled oxygen
or ropes. What drives a person to the edge of one of the most
difficult and revered mountains in the world? How much is one
willing to sacrifice and suffer to pursue an authentic and bold
life? Jornet ponders these questions as he recounts one remarkable
year in the life of the mountain, exploring Everest's changing
nature over four seasons and his own existence. Above the Clouds
silhouettes a complex and dedicated runner at the peak of his
physical prowess who must choose between the safe and certain or
the adventurous and perilous. As he recounts a life spent studying,
tending, and ascending the greatest peaks on earth, Jornet
ruminates on what he has found in nature-simplicity, freedom, and
spiritual joy-and offers a poetic yet clearheaded assessment of his
relationship to the mountain . . . at times his opponent, at
others, his greatest muse. In this sweeping, soulful journey-the
flip side of stories like Into Thin Air-Jornet illuminates with
beauty and brilliance what it means to be an athlete, a competitor,
and a human facing the greatest life challenges-for him, the
mountain he yearns to climb and honor.
A series of luminous vignettes describe the childhood of
Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer. Self-contained,
interconnected fragments begin with her family's departure to
Mendoza in 1910 and end with their return to Buenos Aires and the
death of her father in 1915. Lange's notes tell intimate,
half-understood stories from the seemingly peaceful realm of
childhood, a realm inhabited by an eccentric narrator searching for
clues on womanhood and her own identity. She watches: her pubescent
older sister, bathing naked in the moonlight; the death of a horse;
and herself, a changeable and untimely girl. How she cried, when
lifted onto a table and dressed as a boy, and how she laughed,
climbing onto the kitchen roof in men's clothing and throwing
bricks to announce her performance. Lange makes her domestic
setting into a laboratory where strangeness and eroticism combine
in delicate, daring flashes of literary brilliance.
A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house
opposite her family's home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them.
She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled
spinsters contemplating suicide, or as players in an affair with
dark and mysterious consequences. Lange's imaginative excesses and
almost hallucinatory images make this uncanny exploration of
desire, domestic space, voyeurism and female isolation a
twentieth-century masterpiece. Too long viewed as Borges's muse,
Lange is today recognised in the Spanish-speaking world as a great
writer and is here translated into English for the first time, to
be read alongside Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector and Marguerite
Duras.
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The Mutations (Paperback)
Jorge Comensal; Translated by Charlotte Whittle
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