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I Called Him Necktie
This is the Japanese Catcher in the Rye for the 21st Century.
Book Details
- Publisher: New Vessel Press
- Publish Date: Sep 9th, 2014
- Pages: 133
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 0.40in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9781939931146
- Categories: • Literary• Coming of Age
About the Author
Milena Michiko Flasar was born in 1980, the daughter of a Japanese mother and an Austrian father. She lives in Vienna and has written three novels, including I Called Him Necktie, which won the 2012 Austrian Alpha Literature Prize. Sheila Dickie studied German and Drama at Bristol University and has taught German. She has translated a novel by Claude Michelet from French, and lives in Henley-on-Thames, England.
Praise for this book
"The best of the best from this year's bountiful harvest of uncommonly strong offerings ... Deeply original." -O, The Oprah Magazine "A spare, stunning, elegiac gem of a book. Milena Michiko Flasar writes with a poet's clarity of language and vision, probing deeply below the surfaces of familiar Japanese stereotypes ... to tell a compassionate and insightful story of dysfunction, despair and friendship."
-Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being "The quiet reflection of this jewel of a novel is revelatory, redemptive and hypnotic until the last word."
-Kirkus Reviews "Flasar's exquisite, finely wrought novel is both a prose poem and a parable about how we deflect, defer and disconnect from life, and what is needed before we can bravely embrace it again."
- Monique Truong, author of The Book of Salt and Bitter in the Mouth "A tender, melancholy book of great linguistic beauty and clarity. A flawless novel."
-Süddeutsche Zeitung "With high artistry . . . this seductive beauty is also strangely religious: the book treats life with an almost Buddhist serenity."
-Der Spiegel
-Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being "The quiet reflection of this jewel of a novel is revelatory, redemptive and hypnotic until the last word."
-Kirkus Reviews "Flasar's exquisite, finely wrought novel is both a prose poem and a parable about how we deflect, defer and disconnect from life, and what is needed before we can bravely embrace it again."
- Monique Truong, author of The Book of Salt and Bitter in the Mouth "A tender, melancholy book of great linguistic beauty and clarity. A flawless novel."
-Süddeutsche Zeitung "With high artistry . . . this seductive beauty is also strangely religious: the book treats life with an almost Buddhist serenity."
-Der Spiegel