Junebat
- 120pages
- 5 heures de lecture
From award winning author John Elizabeth Stintzi, Junebat is a form- and gender-disrupting debut collection that grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming.
John Elizabeth Stintzi Livres
John Elizabeth Stintzi est un auteur non binaire dont la prose et la poésie plongent dans les complexités de l'identité humaine et de la connexion à la terre. Leur œuvre se caractérise par une introspection aiguë et un langage poétique qui explore les relations complexes entre les individus et le monde qui les entoure. À travers des images évocatrices et des métaphores originales, ils examinent des thèmes tels que la mémoire, la perte et la recherche de sa place dans un paysage en constante évolution. L'écriture de Stintzi résonne auprès des lecteurs par sa profondeur émotionnelle et sa sophistication littéraire.
Vanishing Monuments
- 304pages
- 11 heures de lecture
A brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia.
On June 2, 2016, a jogger in Central Park discovers a mass of stone in the reservoir, which soon transforms into a towering stratovolcano. This bizarre occurrence aligns with a surge of strange global phenomena. The narrative weaves mythic elements with stark realism, capturing the sensation of living in a world on fire. A diverse cast experiences personal and collective upheavals: an eight-year-old boy in Mexico City travels back 500 years to witness the fall of the Aztec Empire; a folktale scholar in Tokyo investigates a tale of a woman descending a mountain to wreak havoc; a white trans writer in Jersey City struggles to craft a sci-fi novel about an impossible civilization; a nurse with Doctors Without Borders aids Syrian refugees in Greece while grappling with the trauma of surviving a bombing in Afghanistan; and a nomadic herder in Mongolia transforms into a green, flowering creature determined to cleanse the planet's pollution. With its audacious structure and poetic prose, this novel presents a fiery tapestry of interconnected stories. Critics have praised it as a contemporary folktale that captures the tumultuous present, blending history, myth, and vision in a way that is both gripping and haunting.