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Wretchedness: Winner of the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

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By (author): Andrzej Tichy

Translated by: Nichola Smalley

Malmoe, Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch between his memories and the avant-garde music he loves, and he descends into his past, hearing all over again the chaotic song of his youth. He emerges to a different sound, heading for a crash. From sprawling housing projects to underground clubs and squat parties, Wretchedness is a blistering trip through the underbelly of Europe's cities. Powered by a furious, unpredictable beat, this is a paean to brotherhood, to those who didn't make it however hard they fought, and a visceral indictment of the poverty which took them. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jun 2020
  • Publisher: And Other Stories
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781911508762

About Andrzej Tichy

Andrzej Tichy was born in Prague to a Polish mother and a Czech father. He has lived in Sweden since 1981. The author of five novels a short story collection and a wide range of nonfiction and criticism Tichy writes literary prose with raw stylistic flair. He is widely recognized as one of the most important novelists of his generation successfully merging depictions of acute social and political issues with a vivid formal awareness. His latest novel Elandet (Wretchedness) is a postpolitical foray into modern day Swedish society. It was shortlisted for the August Prize 2016 Sweden's most prestigious literary prize. A translator and lover of Swedish and Norwegian literature Nichola Smalley is also publicist at And Other Stories and an escaped academic - in 2014 she finished her PhD exploring the use of contemporary urban vernaculars in Swedish and UK rap and literature at UCL. Her translations range from Jogo Bonito by Henrik Brandao Joensson (Yellow Jersey Press) a Swedish book about Brazilian football to the latest novel by Norwegian superstar Jostein Gaarder An Unreliable Man (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).

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