An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth by Moschovakis, Anna

An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth

A formidable, uncanny, and utterly unique new work from accomplished novelist and poet, Anna Moschovakis, whose translation...
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Author: Anna Moschovakis
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An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth by Moschovakis, Anna

An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth

$23.04

An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth

$23.04
Author: Anna Moschovakis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A formidable, uncanny, and utterly unique new work from accomplished novelist and poet, Anna Moschovakis, whose translation of David Diop's Fr?re d'?me (At Night All Blood Is Black, Pushkin and FSG) won the 2021 International Booker Prize

After a seismic event leaves the world shattered, an unnamed narrator at the end of a mediocre acting career struggles to regain the ability to walk on ground that is in constant motion. When her alluring younger housemate, Tala, disappears, what had begun as an obsession grows into an impulse to kill, forcing the narrator to confront the meaning of the ruptures that have suddenly upended her life. The drive to find and eliminate Tala becomes an existential pursuit, leading back in time and out into a desolate, dust-covered city, where the narrator is targeted by charismatic "healing" ideologues with uncertain motives. Torn between a gnawing desire to reckon with the forces that have made her and an immediate need to find the stability to survive, she is forced to question familiar figurations of light, shadow, authenticity, resistance, and the limits of personal transformation in an alienated, alienating world.

Darkly comic, deeply resonant, and hallucinatory in tone, An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth will appeal to readers of Annie Ernaux, Dionne Brand, and Sheila Heti.

Author: Anna Moschovakis
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: 11/19/2024
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781593767839


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2024 pg. 2

About the Author
ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS is a poet and translator whose most recent novel is Participation (2022, Coffee House Press). Other books include the novel Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love, and poetry books They, We Will Get Into Trouble for This and You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has also translated Albert Cossery's The Jokers, Annie Ernaux's The Possession, and various others. She is a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and co-founder of Bushel Collective, an experimental mixed-use storefront space in Delhi, NY.

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