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The June Book Box features:
- Lend Me Your Character by Dubravka Ugresic
- Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
- A gorgeous French Cahier-style notebook from Obvious State
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Lend Me Your Character by Dubravka Ugresic
“As long as some, like Ugresic, who can write well, do, there will be hope for literature.”
– New Criterion
Translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth, Michael Henry Heim, and Ellen Elias-Bursać, Dubravaka Ugresic’s Lend Me Your Character is a new edition of one of Ugresic’s most beloved collections. “A little patchwork novel” with major ambition, the collection is a celebration of Ugresic at her finest.
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
“Erpenbeck knows that no one is all bad, no state all rotten, and she masterfully captures the existential bewilderment of this period between states and ideologies.”—TLS
Kairos, translated by Michael Hofmann, is Jenny Erpenbeck’s much-anticipated new novel.
In East Berlin at the end of the 1980s, nineteen-year-old Katharina has a chance meeting with a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after. In her unmistakable style and with enormous sweep, Erpenbeck describes the path of the two lovers, as Katharina matures and comes to terms with their destructive romance, even as a whole world with its own ideology disappears.
The Bookish Gift
Obvious State’s artful notebooks are inspired by the timeless beauty of vintage French Cahiers. The classic design features weighty natural paper, rounded corners, and thirty-two lined pages. They’re versatile enough to display as art objects, jot down your thoughts, or give as a practical, thoughtful gift.
The Khalil Gibran notebook that we include in the June Book Box features the quote, “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair“, along with a beautiful line illustration of the moving wind.
Made in the U.S., this notebook is 6.5 x 8.5 inches and uses uncoated 80# natural paper. The cover is partially recycled and natural white, The notebook is offset printed and saddle stitched with matching staples.
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“As long as some, like Ugresic, who can write well, do, there will be hope for literature.”
- New Criterion
Lend Me Your Character is a new edition of one of Ugresic's most beloved collections. It was first published in 2005 by Dalkey but went out of print. We are thrilled that it is back, along with the legendary heroine Štefica Cvek.
This book contains the novella Štefica Cvek in the Jaws of Life (or The Patchwork Novel) and the story collection Lend Me Your Character. Added to this new edition are the pieces 'How to Ruin Your Own Heroine' (about Śtefica Cvek) and 'Button, Button Who's Got the Button?'
Lydia Perovic beautifully says in her review of the book: "The story of a typist who lives with her elderly aunt and dreams of romance was a parody of women's self-help, chick-lit and, Sex and the City long before they became such a mass phenomena, but is also a commentary on the most archetypal of 'women's' genres, the romance novel. It is a very careful parody, however, since Ugresic knows that simple ridicule won't do. Ugresic's main interest is to see what is missing in women's lives that they seem to find in this genre and nowhere else."
Jenny Erpenbeck's much-anticipated new novel, Kairos, is the second new release we're featuring in our June box.
In East Berlin at the end of the 1980s, nineteen-year-old Katharina has a chance meeting with a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after. In her unmistakable style and with enormous sweep, Erpenbeck describes the path of the two lovers, as Katharina matures and comes to terms with their destructive romance, even as a whole world with its own ideology disappears.
As the Times Literary Supplement writes: “The weight of history, the particular experiences of East and West, and the ways in which cultural and subjective memory shape individual identity has always been present in Erpenbeck’s work. She knows that no one is all bad, no state all rotten, and she masterfully captures the existential bewilderment of this period between states and ideologies.”
In the opinion of her gifted translator Michael Hofmann, Kairos is the great post-Unification novel. And, as The New Republic has commented on his work as a translator: “Hofmann’s translation is invaluable—it achieves what translations are supposedly unable to do: it is at once ‘loyal’ and ‘beautiful.’”
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