Rivka Galchen
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear--
1618, Wurttemberg, a German duchy. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun. Fear and suspicion are...
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Español
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«Pequeñas labores» es una amalgama literaria singular y embriagadora que encuentra su principal fuente de inspiración en el fascinante El libro de la almohada, la obra maestra del periodo Heian escrita por la dama de la corte Sei Shōnagon. Igual que en aquel magnífico ensayo digresivo, pieza inaugural del género conocido como zuihitsu, la prosa de Galchen traspasa las fronteras de los géneros para revelarnos las pesadumbres, debilidades y...
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Language
English
Description
"Rivka Galchen delivers joy and cleverness reminiscent of The Phantom Tollbooth, Alice in Wonderland, and Hayao Miyazaki movies" (NPR, Best Books of 2019) in Rat Rule 79, a brain-twisting adventure story about friendship, growing up, and peanut-butter-pickle sandwiches.
Fred and her math-teacher mom are always on the move, and Fred is getting sick of it. She's about to have yet another birthday in a new place without friends. On the eve of turning...
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Language
English
Description
When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her and even audaciously claims to be her. While everyone else is fooled by this imposter, Leo knows better. Certain that his real wife is alive and in hiding, Leo embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love. From the streets of New York to the southernmost reaches of Patagonia, Leo's quest...