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An Unruled Body - Gjika, Ani (Hardcover)
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- Condition
- Brand
- Gjika, Ani
- ISBN
- 9781632063403
- Book Title
- Unruled Body
- Item Length
- 7.4in
- Publisher
- Restless Books
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Women
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 13.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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In a searching and powerful debut memoir, award-winning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body, intuition, and desire. Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came of age just after the fall of Communism, a time when everyone had a secret to keep and young women were afraid to walk down the street alone. When her family immigrates to America, Gjika finds herself far from the grandmother who helped raise her, grappling with a new language, and isolated from aging parents who are trying in their own ways to survive. When she meets a young man whose mind leans toward writing, as hers does, Ani falls in love--at least, she thinks it's love. Set across Albania, Thailand, India, and the U.S., An Unruled Body is a young woman's journey to selfhood through the lenses of language, sexuality, and identity, and how she learns to find freedom of expression on her own terms.
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Publisher
Restless Books
ISBN-10
1632063409
ISBN-13
9781632063403
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10060633964
Product Key Features
Book Title
Unruled Body
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.4in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
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"An Unruled Body compellingly draws readers along Gjika's journey toward sexual freedom, and the experience is breathtaking. At times meditative, and at times cinematic, Gjika writes about the intricacies of patriarchy, trauma, and sex with unflinching clarity and nuance, and an embodied sense of suspense that will keep your heart pounding." --Jonathan Escoffery, author of If I Survive You "An Albanian-born poet and translator, Ani Gjika has a voice that is precise, surprising, and wholly her own. Her writing made me think more deeply about how to live in the world and how to be more awake to sensations from without and from within. This book is a gift and a delight." --Alysia Abbott, author of Fairyland "Bold, tender, intimate" -- Nina Maclaughlin, The Boston Globe "With a poet's ear for sound and magic and rhythm, and a page-turning storytellers' sense of narrative, Ani Gjika's An Unruled Body is a hypnotic and ruthlessly honest account of navigating the enduring complexities of sexuality, gender, religion, and identity. This is a book the entire human race should read." --Matthew Vollmer, author of All of Us Together in the End "In her courageous and profoundly moving memoir, Albanian-born poet and translator Ani Gjika reconstructs her personal history in Albania, America, and beyond, naming traumas that often remain unspoken. Gjika is unafraid to delve into the most taboo topic for a woman raised in a religious family within a patriarchal society: sex. The book that emerges is memorable, rich, and daring, simultaneously a portrait of Albania during the fall of communism; an exploration of language, desire, and power; and a bracingly honest sexual coming of age tale that unfolds across continents. An Unruled Body is a different kind of immigrant story, one that demands that we consider the specific, insidious ways that patriarchy controls a woman's relationship to her body, mind, and expression. With a poet's ear, Gjika finds language for confronting misogyny and the male gaze on the most intimate terms, ultimately revealing the transformational power of self-discovery through the written word." --Prize Judges Francisco Cantú, Shuchi Saraswat, and Ilan Stavans, Praise for An Unruled Body In her courageous and profoundly moving memoir, Albanian-born poet and translator Ani Gjika reconstructs her personal history in Albania, America, and beyond, naming traumas that often remain unspoken. Gjika is unafraid to delve into the most taboo topic for a woman raised in a religious family within a patriarchal society: sex. The book that emerges is memorable, rich, and daring, simultaneously a portrait of Albania during the fall of communism; an exploration of language, desire, and power; and a bracingly honest sexual coming of age that unfolds across continents. An Unruled Body is a different kind of immigrant story, one that demands that we consider the specific, insidious ways that patriarchy controls a woman's relationship to her body, mind, and expression. With a poet's ear, Gjika finds language for confronting misogyny and the male gaze on the most intimate terms, ultimately revealing the transformational power of self-discovery through the written word. -- Prize Judges Francisco Cantú, Shuchi Saraswat, and Ilan Stavans
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2023-939500
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