Everything You Ever Wanted: A Florence Welch Between Two Books Pick
Autor Luiza Saumaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iun 2019
'Both anacute satire of our social-media dominated times, and ahaunting examination of depression and anxietyrendered in diamond sharp prose. Itdeserves to be on every prize longlist this year'i
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You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you order expensive drink after expensive drink until you're so blackout drunk you can't remember the circumstances which have led you to waking up in bed with your colleague. The next day you stay in bed until the afternoon, scrolling through your social media feeds and wondering why everyone else seems to be achieving so much.
Sometimes you don't get out of bed at all.
Then you hear aboutLife on Nyx, a programme that allows 100 lucky winners the chance to escape it all, move to another planet and establish a new way of life. One with meaning and purpose. One without Instagram and online dating. There's one caveat: if you go, you can never come back.
But you aren't worried about that.
After all, what on Earth could there possibly be to miss?
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'I loved it'Megan Hunter
'Tinged with melancholy and yearning, this novel is wry and frequently beautiful, and its culmination is surprising and deeply moving'Guardian
'One of the most original and urgent novels I've read this year'Clare Fisher
'I'd follow Sauma's voice down any wormhole'Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
'Sublime'Otegha Uwagba
'Gripping'India Knight
'Luiza Sauma takes us on a breathtaking voyage through both the farthest reaches of space and the innermost depths of the human soul'Peng Shepherd
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241363553
ISBN-10: 0241363551
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241363551
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Luiza
Saumawas
born
in
Rio
de
Janeiro
and
raised
in
London.
Her
first
novel,Flesh
and
Bone
and
Water,
received
widespread
critical
acclaim
and
she
was
listed
by
theTelegraphas
one
of
their
'ones
to
watch'
for
2017.
Luiza
worked
at
theIndependent
on
Sundayfor
several
years
before
becoming
a
novelist.
She
has
an
MA
in
Creative
and
Life
Writing
from
Goldsmiths,
University
of
London,
where
she
won
the
Pat
Kavanagh
Award.
Recenzii
Sauma
skewers
the
falsities
and
disappointments
of
contemporary
life
and
work
with
rare
sensitivity,
unfolding
an
evocative
narrative
of
unearthly
escape.I
loved
it
Every now and then, a book comes along and pins down the wild thoughts that have been circling around in your brain as you question the meaning of your lifein the bath at midnight.Manages to sensitively unpack the frustrations of modern life while appreciating how funny the banality of it all is
Animportant and poignantnovel that captures the ennui, panic and stubborn optimism of the zeitgeist withspirit, humour and a fearless portrayal of human truth
Beautifully written . . .Everything You Ever Wantedexplores our current obsession with a meaningful life
Everything You Ever Wantedisone of the most original and urgent novels I've read this year.Sauma dives under the skin of the way we live now and makes it into an astonishing new shape. Funny, heart-breaking and thought-provoking -a novel that talks about all the things we are most afraid to talk about. Read it!
Sauma'swondrousnovel could not be moretimely.Captures the era of social media addictionand status anxietyperfectly. . . . with echoes ofThe Truman Showand1984
Uplifting, unputdownable and mordantly funny,Everything You Ever Wantedis the dystopian beach read you didn't know you needed. It's a love letter to London from outer space. It's both a speculative dystopian drama and a deadpan office satire. It's a brilliantly relatable and ambitious ode to the humdrum and the sublime;a truly original novel that captures the pleasures and displeasures of modern, earthly life.
Everything You Ever Wantedisso sharp-eyed about our hidden hopes and tiny hypocrisies.Even the most fantastical elements feel painfully, perfectly true.I'd follow Sauma's voice down any wormhole
A daring and original novel that asks profound questions about the way we live todaywhilst being simultaneously playful and fun.Sauma is brilliant at nailing the details of contemporary lifein a way that is recognisable to anyone who has suffered the mundanity of office jobs.
Courageous, haunting, and beautiful-with EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED,Luiza Sauma takes us on a breathtaking voyage through both the farthest reaches of space and the innermost depths of the human soul
Tinged with melancholy and yearning, this novel iswryand frequentlybeautiful, and its culmination issurprising and deeply moving
What Saumacaptures so excellentlyis thelow level anxiety that hums through everyday life
Her writing is beautiful
Weird, wonderfulandbeautifully written
Sauma has the horrors of the workplacenailed with satirical precision
Absorbingandambitious. Filled withsharp observations about the way in which we live now,Everything You Ever Wantedis bothan acute satire of our social-media dominated times, and ahaunting examination of depression and anxietyrendered indiamond sharp prosewith barely a wasted word. . .It deserves to be on every prize longlist this year
For fans ofBlack Mirror
Millennial angst meets sci-fi
Sublime
An arresting debut about memory and trauma. In this respect and others,it resembles Julian Barnes's Man Booker-winner,The Sense of an Ending.
Luiza Sauma's debut novel is that rare thing: a completely absorbing, brilliantly-designed, literary work.
Her writing is beautiful.I am sure I'll see her name on the spine of many a novel to come
Every now and then, a book comes along and pins down the wild thoughts that have been circling around in your brain as you question the meaning of your lifein the bath at midnight.Manages to sensitively unpack the frustrations of modern life while appreciating how funny the banality of it all is
Animportant and poignantnovel that captures the ennui, panic and stubborn optimism of the zeitgeist withspirit, humour and a fearless portrayal of human truth
Beautifully written . . .Everything You Ever Wantedexplores our current obsession with a meaningful life
Everything You Ever Wantedisone of the most original and urgent novels I've read this year.Sauma dives under the skin of the way we live now and makes it into an astonishing new shape. Funny, heart-breaking and thought-provoking -a novel that talks about all the things we are most afraid to talk about. Read it!
Sauma'swondrousnovel could not be moretimely.Captures the era of social media addictionand status anxietyperfectly. . . . with echoes ofThe Truman Showand1984
Uplifting, unputdownable and mordantly funny,Everything You Ever Wantedis the dystopian beach read you didn't know you needed. It's a love letter to London from outer space. It's both a speculative dystopian drama and a deadpan office satire. It's a brilliantly relatable and ambitious ode to the humdrum and the sublime;a truly original novel that captures the pleasures and displeasures of modern, earthly life.
Everything You Ever Wantedisso sharp-eyed about our hidden hopes and tiny hypocrisies.Even the most fantastical elements feel painfully, perfectly true.I'd follow Sauma's voice down any wormhole
A daring and original novel that asks profound questions about the way we live todaywhilst being simultaneously playful and fun.Sauma is brilliant at nailing the details of contemporary lifein a way that is recognisable to anyone who has suffered the mundanity of office jobs.
Courageous, haunting, and beautiful-with EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED,Luiza Sauma takes us on a breathtaking voyage through both the farthest reaches of space and the innermost depths of the human soul
Tinged with melancholy and yearning, this novel iswryand frequentlybeautiful, and its culmination issurprising and deeply moving
What Saumacaptures so excellentlyis thelow level anxiety that hums through everyday life
Her writing is beautiful
Weird, wonderfulandbeautifully written
Sauma has the horrors of the workplacenailed with satirical precision
Absorbingandambitious. Filled withsharp observations about the way in which we live now,Everything You Ever Wantedis bothan acute satire of our social-media dominated times, and ahaunting examination of depression and anxietyrendered indiamond sharp prosewith barely a wasted word. . .It deserves to be on every prize longlist this year
For fans ofBlack Mirror
Millennial angst meets sci-fi
Sublime
An arresting debut about memory and trauma. In this respect and others,it resembles Julian Barnes's Man Booker-winner,The Sense of an Ending.
Luiza Sauma's debut novel is that rare thing: a completely absorbing, brilliantly-designed, literary work.
Her writing is beautiful.I am sure I'll see her name on the spine of many a novel to come