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Brother in Ice: Longlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award
Alicia Kopf
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Description for Brother in Ice: Longlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award
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`She thought that it was precisely when things get uncomfortable or can't be shown that something interesting comes to light. That is the point of no return, the point that must be reached, the point you reach after crossing the border of what has already been said, what has already been seen. It's cold out there.'This hybrid novel-part research notes, part fictionalised diary, and part travelogue-uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist's own concerns as she comes of age as an artist, a daughter, and a sister to an autistic brother. Conceptual and emotionally compelling, ... Read more
`She thought that it was precisely when things get uncomfortable or can't be shown that something interesting comes to light. That is the point of no return, the point that must be reached, the point you reach after crossing the border of what has already been said, what has already been seen. It's cold out there.'This hybrid novel-part research notes, part fictionalised diary, and part travelogue-uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist's own concerns as she comes of age as an artist, a daughter, and a sister to an autistic brother. Conceptual and emotionally compelling, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
High Wycombe, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911508205
SKU
9781911508205
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About Alicia Kopf
Alicia Kopf (b. 1982) is a writer and artist based in Barcelona. Brother in Ice is the culmination of an artistic cycle of exhibitions entitled Articantartic. The original Catalan manuscript of Brother in Ice won the 2015 Premi Documenta, a prestigious prize for an unpublished Catalan-language work of literature, and upon publication was awarded the 2016 Premi Llibreter by Catalan ... Read more
Reviews for Brother in Ice: Longlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award
'This is fast, fluid, exciting narrative; random, philosophical, alive, questioning, full of precise set pieces, sensations, regret, emotion, self-doubt, defiance, curiosity and a feel for history, fact and human behaviour . . .Brother in Ice is a living book and one to give your most discerning friends.' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
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'Brother in Ice is actually a culmination of ... Read more