{"product_id":"purity-paperback-1","title":"Purity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrzej Tich?\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNichola Smalley\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003ePurity\u003c\/i\u003e 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 color wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief finds himself in books. And cleaners reluctantly go on cleaning.\u003cbr\u003eWith gravity and humor, 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.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrzej Tichý \u003c\/b\u003e(b. 1978) was born in Prague to a Polish mother and a Czech father and has lived in Sweden since 1981. He is the author of five novels, a story collection and a wide range of nonfiction and criticism. Tichý has received critical acclaim for his work, and is widely recognized as one of the most important novelists of his generation. His novel \u003ci\u003eWretchedness\u003c\/i\u003e, a post-political foray into modern day Swedish society, won the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2021 Bernard Shaw Prize. His latest short story collection \u003ci\u003ePurity\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for the Nordic Council Literary Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNichola Smalley \u003c\/b\u003eis a translator of Swedish and Norwegian literature. Her translation of Andrzej Tichý's novel \u003ci\u003eWretchedness\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2021 Bernard Shaw Prize. She has a PhD in the use of slang in contemporary Swedish and English literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 124\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 7.75 x 5.15 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 04, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701366132832,"sku":"9781913505981","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/purity-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}