<p>A complex, delicate, and wistful debut. It deserves to be pulled into the light.</p>

Sydsvenskan

<p>An elegant and impressive debut.</p>

Svenska Yle Literature Prize Jury

Má dreams of wealth and grandeur, Hieu dreams of Finnish girls. The younger brother, always on the periphery, always an observer, gradually disappears into his schoolwork, mesmerised by his own intellect.The three of them form a solitary world in a small Ostrobothnian town on the west coast of Finland. Má and Hieu, constantly on a collision course with each other and the community’s suffocating social codes. They live among people who want to talk openly about everything, who don’t understand the necessity of sometimes remaining in the shade.In sensitive and transfixing prose that has the effect of a series of tableaux, and with chapter headings reminiscent of the intertitles in a silent film, Tran’s multi-award-winning debut is a moving story about love, the compulsion to create, and the meaning of family.
Les mer
A complex, delicate, and wistful debut. It deserves to be pulled into the light.
In a sensual, dreamy prose, still so very real, with an authority reminiscent of Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Tran has written a first novel that shines like a precious gem.
The critically-acclaimed, multi-award winning literary debut from an exceptional new voice

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781915267283
Publisert
2024-10-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Lolli Editions
Høyde
185 mm
Bredde
125 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Oversetter

Biographical note

Quynh Tran (b. 1989) grew up in Jakobstad in Finnish Ostrobothnia. He now resides in Malmöwhere he works as a psychologist. Tran is a graduate of the acclaimed Biskops Arnö Writing School. His debut novel Shade and Breeze was awarded the prestigious Runeberg Prize, the Svenska Yle’s Literature Prize, and the Borås Tidning’s Debutant Prize. Kira Josefsson is a writer, editor, and translator working between Swedish and English. Her work has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Bernard Shaw Prize. She lives in Queens, New York, and regularly writes on US events and politics in the Swedish press.