The Hive and the Honey

Stories

14,95 €

inkl. MwSt. und Versand · Lieferzeit 1–2 Werktage

Gesetzliche Gewährleistung: 2 Jahre · Details

Nur noch 1 verfügbar

Beschreibung

<b>Winner of The Story Prize</b><br> <b>Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize</b><br> <b>A <i>Time</i> Top 10 Best Fiction Book of 2023 and Must Read Book of 2023</b><br> <b>A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors’ Choice</b><br> <b>Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>The</i> <i>New Yorker</i>, <i>Vanity Fair</i>,<i> Library Journal</i>,<i> Electric Literature</i>, and the New York Public Library</b><br> <br> <b>“Expansive, haunting, and intimate.” —Sabir Sultan, <i>Pen America</i></b><br> <br> <b>From the beloved award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a spectacular collection of unique stories, each confronting themes of identity, belonging, and the collision of cultures across countries and centuries.</b><br><br>A boy searches for his father, a prison guard, on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family.<br> <br> <i>The Hive and the Honey </i>is a “virtuosic” (<i>Vanity Fair</i>) collection by celebrated author Paul Yoon, one that portrays the vastness and complexity of diasporic communities, with each story bringing to light the knotty inheritances of their characters. How does a North Korean defector connect with the child she once left behind? What are the traumas that haunt a Korean settlement in Far East Russia?<br> <br> “Absorbing...Yoon details fully realized and flawed characters attempting to wade through the complexities of immigrant life...[and] asks urgent questions about what it really means to belong somewhere.” —<i>Time, </i>100 Must-Read Books of 2023

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781668020807

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

208 x 133 x 11 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Scribner Book Company