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How to Pronounce Knife
- Stories
- Narrateur(s): James Tang, Kulap Vilaysack
- Durée: 2 h et 58 min
- Catégories: Littérature et fiction, Anthologies et nouvelles
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Winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award
Number-One National Best Seller
Named one of Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of 2020 and one of the best books of spring 2020 by The New York Times, Salon, Vanity Fair, Bustle, The Millions, and Vogue, and featuring stories that have appeared in Harper's, Granta, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, this revelatory book of fiction from O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa establishes her as an essential new voice in Canadian and world literature.
Told with compassion and wry humor, these stories honor characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world".
A young man painting nails at the local salon. A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. A father who packs furniture to move into homes he'll never afford. A housewife learning English from daytime soap operas. In her stunning debut book of fiction, O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa focuses on characters struggling to make a living, illuminating their hopes, disappointments, love affairs, acts of defiance, and above all their pursuit of a place to belong. In spare, intimate prose charged with emotional power and a sly wit, she paints an indelible portrait of watchful children, wounded men, and restless women caught between cultures, languages, and values. As one of Thammavongsa's characters says, "All we wanted was to live." And in these stories, they do - brightly, ferociously, unforgettably.
A daughter becomes an unwilling accomplice in her mother's growing infatuation with country singer Randy Travis. A boxer finds an unexpected chance at redemption while working at his sister's nail salon. An older woman finds her assumptions about the limits of love unravelling when she begins a relationship with her much younger neighbor. A school bus driver must grapple with how much he's willing to give up in order to belong. And in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize-shortlisted title story, a young girl's unconditional love for her father transcends language.
Unsentimental yet tender, and fiercely alive, How to Pronounce Knife announces Souvankham Thammavongsa as one of the most striking voices of her generation.
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"These poignant and deceptively quiet stories are powerhouses of feeling and depth; How to Pronounce Knife is an artful blend of simplicity and sophistication." (Mary Gaitskill, author of Don't Cry and Because They Wanted To)
"How to Pronounce Knife is a book of rarest beauty and power. Souvankham Thammavongsa has already earned a devoted readership for her poetry. And in each of these exquisitely crafted stories, we experience the profound emotional effects of economy and distillation. We feel the reverberating energy around each judiciously placed word. This is one of the great short story collections of our time. Do not miss it." (David Chariandy, author of Brother and I've Been Meaning to Tell You)
"Souvankham Thammavongsa writes with deep precision, wide-open spaces, and quiet, cool, emotionally devastating poise. There is not a moment off in these affecting stories." (Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be? and Motherhood)
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- Len
- 2020-11-22
So Disappointing
This collection of short stories was such a disappointing read. The writing was so simplistic and still surprised this is the best of Canadian fiction for 2020. Sad.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-12-31
Amazing book!
One of the best books I’ve listened to! Great personal stories, a good insight to some people’s lives. I would highly suggest!
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-12-12
Slim Volume - Deep Reach
A short story collection about the little guy. The immigrant, the marginalized, the unnoticed. Souvankham Thammavongsa delves into their world, with unique compassion, understanding and humour. She doesn't sentimentalize, use dramatic language or flamboyant characters. Her stories are ordinary, her characters reserved and her language economical. Yet she packs a powerful punch with each story with characters that are resilient, persevere and yes, sometimes score small victories. She's a skillful writer with a microscopic vision of the human nature. Check out her poetry collection, Small Arguments, and her website souvankham.thammavongsa.com