{"product_id":"eleven-sooty-dreams-paperback","title":"Eleven Sooty Dreams - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eManuela Draeger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJ. T. Mahany\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleven Sooty Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e could also have been called \u003ci\u003eMeeting at Bolcho Pride\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eFire Deep Down Below\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eStation in the Heart of the Flames\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eGranny Holgolde's Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eThe Liars' Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eEve of Battle After the Defeat\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eNever Without My Embers\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eGood-Bye to Death\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eFire Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eTerminal Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eGranny Holgolde's Childish Sickness\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eEven the Nursing Home Is in the Line of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Manuela Draeger's poetic 'post-exotic' novel, a group of young leftists trapped in a burning building after one year's Bolcho Pride parade plunge back into their childhood memories, trading them with each other as their lives are engulfed in flames. They remember Granny Holgolde's stories of the elephant Marta Ashkarot as she travels through the Bardo, to find her home and be reincarnated again and again. They remember the Soviet folk singer Lyudmila Zykina and her melancholic, simple songs of unspeakable beauty. They remember the half-human birds Granny Holgolde called strange cormorants, the ones who knew how to live in fire, secrecy, and death, and as the flames get higher they hope to become them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDraeger, a heteronym for the acclaimed French writer Antoine Volodine, and a librarian in a dystopic prison camp, gives post-exoticism an element of tenderness, and a sense of nostalgia for children's tales, that is far less visible in the other authors' works. \u003ci\u003eEleven Sooty Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book written for adults, a moving story of the constancy of brotherly, loving faithfulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eManuela Draeger\u003c\/b\u003e is one of French author Antoine Volodine's numerous heteronyms and she therefore belongs to a community of imaginary authors that includes Lutz Bassmann and Elli Kronauer. Since 2002, she has published novels for adolescents. She has one other title available in English translation (\u003ci\u003eIn the Time of the Blue Ball\u003c\/i\u003e) to go along with five Volodine novels in translation and one by Lutz Bassmann.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. T. Mahany\u003c\/b\u003e is a graduate of the masters program in literary translation studies at the University of Rochester and received his MFA from the University of Arkansas. His translation of Antoine Volodine's \u003ci\u003eBardo or Not Bardo\u003c\/i\u003e won the inaugural Albertine Prize in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397291851954,"sku":"9781948830263","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/73a07607a683e9839a9c7bdcb428540d.webp?v=1778026955","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/eleven-sooty-dreams-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}