White Dancing Elephants
Best Books of 2018 Kirkus Reviews (debut and short fiction categories) Best Books of 2018, Entropy Magazine A Book Club selection for The Wing, Rebel Women's Lit and Bookish.com 35 over 35 Debut Fiction Award Finalist for the 2019 PEN American Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection "Chaya Bhuvaneswar's debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold, smart, exciting new voice, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor." -Lauren Groff, author of Florida "Stunning, evocative, electric...an exuberant collection." -Kirkus Reviews (starred) A woman grieves a miscarriage, haunted by the Buddha's birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange “rescue” mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds death. And fragments of history, from child brickmakers to slaves in Renaissance Portugal, are held up in brief fictions, burnished, made dazzling and unforgettable. In seventeen remarkable stories, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color—cunning, bold, and resolute—facing sexual harassment and racial violence, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other. Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, White Dancing Elephants marks the emergence of a new and original voice in fiction and explores feminist, queer, religious, and immigrant stories with precision, drama, and compassion.
*Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize *Author's short stories, essays, and poems have been published in venues such as Narrative Magazine, The Awl, Tin House, Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Story South, aaduna, r.k.v.r.y., and elsewhere *Stories from this collection have appeared in Nimrod, Bangalore Review, Blue Lake Review, Santa Fe Writers Project, and the Asian American Literary Review *Author's awards and honors include a Henfield Transatlantic Writing Award as well as a Glimmer Train Honorable Mention, Pushcart Prize nominations, a scholarship to the Squaw Valley Writers Conference, and a Rhodes scholarship *Currently a MacDowell Colony resident in fiction and writing instructor for ArtLitLab in Wisconsin **Forthcoming blurbs from Viet Thanh Nguyen, Meg Wolitzer, Lauren Groff, Elizabeth McCracken, Alex Chee, Adam Haslett
| Autor: | Bhuvaneswar, Chaya |
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| ISBN: | 9781945814617 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Ingram Publishers Services |
| Veröffentlicht: | 09.10.2018 |
| Schlagworte: | FICTION / Asian American FICTION / Contemporary Women FICTION / Cultural Heritage FICTION / Romance / LGBT / General |
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