Purity
Andrzej Tichý
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize Finalist The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds insight in a colour wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief finds himself in books. And cleaners reluctantly go on cleaning. With gravity and humour, against the backdrop of a violent civilization, people are depicted as fallen, or waiting to fall, rendered by Tichý with the fury, compassion and emotional complexity of Kendrick Lamar.
Kundenbewertungen
Bernard Shaw Prize, welfare society, class, racism, immigration, Swedish, translation, music, contemporary fiction, queneau, James Joyce, Swedish literature, Anthony Anaxagorou, Knausgaard, August prize, masculinity, race, toxic masculinity, Scandinavia, Thomas Bernhard, literary fiction, Krasznahorkai, Malmö, Sweden, Eländet, Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, addiction, Mircea Cartarescu, Short stories, International Booker Prize, Lina Wolff, mobility, urban, Patrick Yumi Cottrell, drugs