1000 Coils of Fear

1000 Coils of Fear
Olivia Wenzel, Priscilla Layne
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Trade Paperback
h232 x 152mm - 288pg
7 Jul 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780349702018
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' I have more privilege than any person in my family. And I' m still screwed. ' From award-winning author Olivia Wenzel comes a captivating and unsettling literary debut about race, politics, feminism, motherhood, nationality and enduring love. A young woman attends a play about the Berlin Wall coming down and is the only Black person in the audience. She is sitting with her boyfriend by a bathing lake and four neo-Nazis show up. In New York, she witnesses Trump' s election victory in a strange hotel room and later awakes to panicked messages from friends. Engaging in a witty question and answer with herself, the narrator looks at our rapidly changing times and tells the story of her family: her mother, who was a punk in East Germany and never had the freedom she dreamed of and her absent Angolan father. But in the background of everything is the memory of her twin brother, who died when they were nineteen. Emotional and funny, Olivia Wenzel writes about loneliness and finding joy in life within the roles that society assigns you. 1000 Coils of Fear is a highly original novel both powerfully poetic and full of surprises. ' So exuberant, inventive, brainy, sensitive and hilarious that it' s like a pyrotechnic flare illuminating the whole woman, past and present, radiant, unique, a voice and a novel to take with us into the future. ' FRANCISCO GOLDMAN, author of Monkey Boy' Bold and exceptional . . . Her impressive writing, born of a brilliant mind, surprises - stylistically, and by its frankness and associations . . . I rode in the passenger seat, beside the beauty and strangeness of 1000 Coils of Fear. ' LYNNE TILLMAN, author of Men and Apparitions and Mothercare ' An audacious and disturbing novel. ' MICHELLE DE KRETSER, author of Scary Monsters ' An exciting, confident debut. ' Publishers Weekly' Impressive, relentless, tender. ' Faz
So exuberant, inventive, brainy, sensitive and hilarious that it' s like a pyrotechnic flare illuminating the whole woman, past and present, radiant, unique, a voice and a novel to take with us into the future. -- FRANCISCO GOLDMAN, author of Monkey Boy Bold and exceptional . . . Her impressive writing, born of a brilliant mind, surprises - stylistically, and by its frankness and associations. An uncompromising consciousness leaps from sentence to sentence, city to city, in love, depressed, alienated, afraid, and contradictory . . . I rode in the passenger seat, beside the beauty and strangeness of 1000 Coils of Fear -- LYNNE TILLMAN, author of Men and Apparitions and Mothercare Wenzel debuts with a powerful portrait of a woman finding, losing, and rediscovering herself in 21st-century Germany . . . Her simple but affecting story is told through scattered memories and personal histories . . Captivating . . . An exciting, confident debut * Publishers Weekly * An audacious and disturbing novel -- MICHELLE DE KRETSER, author of Scary Monsters German musician, performer, and playwright Wenzel makes an auspicious fiction debut . . . A prismatic novel, thoughtful and unsettling * Kirkus Reviews * Impressive, relentless, tender * FAZ * This book is a must -- Reader review A strong debut, a touching family story * rbb Kultur * A debut novel as layered and melodic as any symphony or opera. -- Karla Strand * Ms Magazine * Wenzel' s unique literary voice carries the reader through meditations on origins, grief, racial identity, love, and belonging. * Booklist * From the moment I started 1000 Coils of Fear I was sucked in by Olivia' s distinct style, biting yet swirling. In a bristling translation from Priscilla Layne, the cool, understated prose expresses so much of what goes unsaid about the weight of history, how you are perceived as you move through the world and the choices that come with deciding how you want to live. There is a humour, as we see a living where two people share private jokes about the mucus-y chain smoker next door and the meals that you cook repeatedly at dinner parties because you know they' ll always go down well. It is refreshing to read a contemporary book that speaks so much to that period in your life where you are finding your feet, recollecting while plotting. -- Tice Cin
Olivia Wenzel, born in Weimar in former East Germany in 1985, read Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice at the University of Hildesheim and now lives and works in Berlin. She writes drama and prose and makes music as Otis Foulie. Wenzel' s plays have been performed at leading theatres like Munich' s Kammerspiele, Hamburg' s Thalia Theater, Deutsches Theater Berlin and Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. Alongside her writing, she runs workshops for children and young adults. 1000 Coils of Fear is her first novel.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780349702018
Published: 7 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Dialogue Books
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 232mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 353g
Pages: 288

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