Voice of the Fish Paperback / softback
by Lars Horn
Paperback / softback
Description
'This book left me stunned. Breathtaking in its scope and generosity . . . We are in the midst of a transcendent talent.' Maaza Mengiste, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Shadow King 'Rapturous . . . [Horn] is the mystic's David Attenborough.' New York Times Book ReviewLars Horn's Voice of the Fish, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, is a kaleidoscopic, hallucinatory memoir that explores the trans experience through meditations upon aquatic life and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a debilitating injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak, read and write.
In their adept hands, these poignant, allusive shards take shape as a unified whole: short vignettes about fish, reliquaries and antiquities serve as interludes between - and subtle reflections upon - longer memories of their life, knitting together a sinuous, wave-like form that flows across the book. Horn swims through a range of subjects; across marine history, theology, questions of the body and gender, sexuality, transmasculinity and illness.
From their childhood modelling for their mother's art installations - immersed in a bath with dead squid; encased in a full-body plaster cast - to their travels before they were out as trans, these beguiling fragments are linked by a desire to interrogate the physical, and to identify the current beneath.
Horn re-examines presumptions about the body, privileging instead ways of seeing and being that resist binaries, ways that falter, fracture, mutate.
Sensuous and immersive, Voice of the Fish is unique: a masterful and moving achievement.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Footnote Press Ltd
- Publication Date:15/09/2022
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- ISBN:9781804440179
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Footnote Press Ltd
- Publication Date:15/09/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781804440179