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Sara Mesa Among The Hedges (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Among the Hedges
- Publication Name
- Among The Hedges
- Title
- Among The Hedges
- Translator
- Megan McDowell
- Contributor
- Megan McDowell (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1948830396
- EAN
- 9781948830393
- ISBN
- 9781948830393
- Publisher
- Open Letter
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 03/03/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Topic
- Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 120 Pages
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Casi, who is almost fourteen years old, has been skipping school and spending her days hidden among the hedges in a local park, listening to music and reading women's magazines. One day, Viejo, a fifty-year-old man, stumbles upon her hiding place, and the two strike up a friendship. He tells her about birds and Nina Simone, buys her soda and chips, and spends almost every day talking with her. Despite their age gap, there's something childlike about Viejo that leads Casi to believe that he's not like the other men she's encountered, the "dangerous ones." But Viejo has a number of secrets in his past--all of which would be of grave concern to Casi's parents or any other adult who witnessed one of their rendezvous. As these secrets rise to the surface, the clock is ticking, the weather is growing cold and the school is untangling Casi's set of lies, setting up a moment where something has to give. With spare, direct prose, Sara Mesa imbues these two outcasts with a great deal of warmth, raising questions about society's prejudices and assumptions, and creating a truly moving novel of an "inappropriate" relationship.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Open Letter
ISBN-10
1948830396
ISBN-13
9781948830393
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22050416166
Product Key Features
Book Title
Among the Hedges
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Coming of Age
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq6713.E823
Reviews
Praise for Four by Four : "With short, propulsive chapters, Sara Mesa creates an unforgettable gothic landscape, centered on the mysterious and menacing Wybrany College, that twists in ways that unsettle and thrill. In Four by Four , Mesa's sentences are clear as glass, but when you look through you will be terrified by what you see." --Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel "The atmospheric unraveling of the mystery will keep you turning the page; the ending will leave you stunned--Mesa's Four by Four is a tautly written literary thriller that juxtaposes the innocence of children with the fetish of control; a social parable that warns against the silence of oppression and isolation through its disquieting, sparse prose." --Kelsey Westenberg, Seminary Co-op "Stylistically, Four by Four 's narrative structure is both dazzling and dizzying, as its perfect pacing only enhances the metastasizing dread and dis-ease. . . . Mesa exposes the thin veneer of venerability to be hiding something menacing and unforgivable--and Four by Four lays it bare for all the world to see." --Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books "Very few authors evoke a visceral reaction with prose in the way that Sara Mesa does. . . . Four by Four sounds an alarm on the dangers of power, privilege, and the self-delusions told in order to hide complicity. A work of high gothic art, Four by Four solidifies Mesa as one of the strongest female voices in contemporary Spanish literature." --Cristina Rodriguez, Deep Vellum Books "This is a linguistically precise, stylistically spare and emotionally devastating look at the corrosive effect of abuse and power imbalance, perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Samanta Schweblin." --Cindy Pauldine, Shelf Awareness , starred review "Like Buñuel's Exterminating Angel , or even Bong Joon-ho's Parasite , the rich are left rotting in a swamp of their own design. . . . Four by Four is an uncomfortably real look into the absurd world of the bourgeoisie. It is so complex and layered that, to reach a full understanding, one may have to read it two or even three times. Not a single character, after all, is what they seem." --Noelle Mcmanus, The Women's Review of Books Praise for Among the Hedges : "When you find yourself caught in the spiderweb of Sara Mesa's fiction, you wonder how she does it, what the substance is that glues you to her books--that asphalt that impregnates you while you're reading as well as hours and days after you have closed the book. With Among the Hedges it happens again."--Carlos Zanón, Babelia, El País (Book of the Week) "What is fascinating about Sara Mesa is her ability to map the human condition through losers, the abuse of power, oppressive and isolated places, the slow and continuous degradation. That's why her novels are so interesting: because they are always rough, bitter, sincere, dark, unpleasant and slow."--Ángeles López, La Razón " Among the Hedges is pure Sara Mesa, though with a new touch of melancholy. A disturbing and provocative novel."--Luisgé Martín "A very literary novel due to the wise use of narrative times. The chiaroscuros are better at explaining the human being and literature was born to remind us of this. A much-needed novel for our times."--José María Pozuelo Yvancos, Abc Cultural "A couple of characters who meet when perhaps they shouldn't have, and that make us question our own prejudices, the labels we put on others and our own notions of normality."--Eva Piquer, Ara
Lccn
2021-289666
Dewey Decimal
863/.7
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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