{"product_id":"voice-of-the-fish","title":"Voice of the Fish","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This book left me stunned. Breathtaking in its scope and generosity . . . We are in the midst of a transcendent talent.'\u003c\/b\u003e Maaza Mengiste, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow King\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Rapturous . . . [Horn] is the mystic's David Attenborough.'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLars Horn's \u003ci\u003eVoice of the Fish, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHorn 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, \u003ci\u003eVoice of the Fish\u003c\/i\u003e is unique: a masterful and moving achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bonnier Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40079858565203,"sku":"","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781804440179.jpg?v=1778517032","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/voice-of-the-fish","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}