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'This book left me stunned. Breathtaking in its scope and generosity . .. We are in the midst of a transcendent talent.' Maaza Mengiste, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Shadow King 'Rapturous . .. [Horn] is the mystic's David Attenborough.' New York Times Book ReviewLars Horn's Voice of the Fish, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, is a kaleidoscopic, hallucinatory memoir that explores the trans experience through meditations upon aquatic life and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a debilitating injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak, read and write. In their adept hands, these poignant, allusive shards take shape as a unified whole: short vignettes about fish, reliquaries and antiquities serve as interludes between - and subtle reflections upon - longer memories of their life, knitting together a sinuous, wave-like form that flows across the book.Horn swims through a range of subjects; across marine history, theology, questions of the body and gender, sexuality, transmasculinity and illness. From their childhood modelling for their mother's art installations - immersed in a bath with dead squid; encased in a full-body plaster cast - to their travels before they were out as trans, these beguiling fragments are linked by a desire to interrogate the physical, and to identify the current beneath. Horn re-examines presumptions about the body, privileging instead ways of seeing and being that resist binaries, ways that falter, fracture, mutate.Sensuous and immersive, Voice of the Fish is unique: a masterful and moving achievement.

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Book category Books in German Belletristik Zweisprachige Ausgaben

• Full title: Voice of the Fish
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9781804440179
• ISBN: 1804440175
• ID: 41372447
• Publisher: Footnote Press Ltd
• Weight: 244 g
• Dimensions: 136 × 215 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. September 2022

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