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FIGURES OF SPEECH
A taut, short novel about desire, centered on the affair between an older writer of renown and a young literature student, is perfect for fans of Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday and Jenny Offil's Dept. Of Speculation.
The affair is torrid, all consuming, and brief. Now, twenty years after their parting, a young woman bumps into her old flame at a writer's conference. In 176 brief chapters, she attempts to make sense of their liaison in the face of its loss. Written in the form of a love letter, these delicate snapshots of finely-wrought prose are composed in passion by the young woman but are never dispatched to her lover. FIGURES OF SPEECH explores an asymmetrical affair from the inside, teasing out time-worn cliches and giving us a protagonist who walks freely into a relationship where she is always at a disadvantage, yet maintains her agency throughout.
FIGURES OF SPEECH lays bare the pleasures and the perils of forbidden entanglements, and the strength of a woman who demands to have what she desires. It is a book that begs to be consumed in one sitting.
SARAI SHAVIT is a poet, writer, literary editor and television presenter. She has published two books of fiction and two poetry collections. Her award-winning poetry has been translated into German, English, French and Malayalam. She has won the Tel Aviv Municipality Poetry Prize, the Goldberg Prize for Literature, and the Mifal Hapayis Poetry Prize. Shavit currently a curator of literary festivals, and the editor-in-chief of the Hebrew magazine "Moznayim." She teaches creative writing at Tel Aviv University and the Bezalel Academy of Arts, and serves as the official literary scout of KI Broadcasting Company.
FIGURES OF SPEECH lays bare the pleasures and the perils of forbidden entanglements, and the strength of a woman who demands to have what she desires. It is a book that begs to be consumed in one sitting.
SARAI SHAVIT is a poet, writer, literary editor and television presenter. She has published two books of fiction and two poetry collections. Her award-winning poetry has been translated into German, English, French and Malayalam. She has won the Tel Aviv Municipality Poetry Prize, the Goldberg Prize for Literature, and the Mifal Hapayis Poetry Prize. Shavit currently a curator of literary festivals, and the editor-in-chief of the Hebrew magazine "Moznayim." She teaches creative writing at Tel Aviv University and the Bezalel Academy of Arts, and serves as the official literary scout of KI Broadcasting Company.
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