• Tuotekuvaus

  A bold and singularly funny novel about a young Ethiopian American woman whose 21st century life collides spectacularly with Ethiopian legends that she knows can’t possibly be real, and yet…“Remember when we were children? The storyteller would shout Teret Teret, meaning a tale, a tale, and we would yell back Yelam beret! We didn’t know this meant a cow’s house, just that it rhymed. And then the story would begin.”Belaynesh Tessema, an Ethiopian American journalist working at the independent travel magazine aptly named Trivial Pursuits, isn’t exactly pleased when her overbearing boss insists she travel to D.C. to cover a story about a newly incorporated, all-Ethiopian town. When she starts packing to leave, things start to get…strange. First, there are the huge lapses in Belaynesh’s memory and sense of place and time. Perhaps more alarming, she realizes that every morning when she wakes up, she begins the same day again: September 10, 2007, which also happens to be the last day of the Ethiopian calendar year. Or, more to the point, the day before the world is set to end. Enter Teret, a talking parrot who reveals an ambitious plan to un-stick time, sending him and Belaynesh deep into the world of Ethiopian mythology. At its center is the mysterious Henok, star of the apocryphal Book of Enoch, who’s none too happy at the many ways Belaynesh’s arrival on this strange, surreal scene has disrupted the book he’s dedicated his life to composing. As Belaynesh and Teret dodge contemporary reinventions of the book’s grandest flourishes, from fallen angels to time traveling giants, and even Henok himself, Belaynesh learns that sometimes moving forward requires looking back. Irreverently funny and wildly inventive, Teret Teret is modern magical realism at its best. It blends some of Ethiopia’s oldest stories with a heroine for our current moment, for a mold-breaking, epic tale about identity, love, and writing new stories when the old ones don’t serve us anymore.

• Tuotetiedot

  • Kustantaja / Valmistaja HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • ISBN 9780063468382
  • Tuotekoodi 9780063468382
  • Alanimike A Novel
  • Kirjoittajat Nafkote Tamirat
  • Kieli Englanti
  • Thema-luokitus Moderni kirjallisuus ja nykykirjallisuus; Tieteiskirjallisuus / Scifi; Fantasiakirjallisuus; Myytit, sadut ja legendat; Historialliset romaanit
  • Ilmestymispäivä 22.04.2027
  • Vuosi 2027
  • Tuoteryhmä Ulk muut kaunokirjat
  • Tuotepääryhmä Ulkomaiset kaunokirjat
  • Tuotelinja Kirjat
  • Genretunnus FA; HI; SC
  • Sivumäärä 224
  • Pituus (mm) 210
  • Leveys (mm) 140
  • Korkeus (mm) 19
  • Paino (g) 454
  • Tuotemuoto Kovakantinen
  • Tuoteturvallisuusyhteystiedot HarperCollins Publishers, enquiries@harpercollins.ie, Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 C9W8, D01 C9W8, Dublin
  • ALV 13,5%

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