A short-story collection from the acclaimed author of The Great Believers
Named a must-read by the Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and The L Magazine Rebecca Makkai's first two novels, The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the award-winning writer, whose stories have appeared in four consecutive editions of The Best American Short Stories, returns with a highly anticipated collection bearing her signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart. A reality show producer manipulates two contestants into falling in love, even as her own relationship falls apart. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young boy has a revelation about his father's past when a renowned Romanian violinist plays a concert in their home. When the prized elephant of a traveling circus keels over dead, the small-town minister tasked with burying its remains comes to question his own faith. In an unnamed country, a composer records the folk songs of two women from a village on the brink of destruction. These transporting, deeply moving stories--some inspired by her own family history--amply demonstrate Makkai's extraordinary range as a storyteller, and confirm her as a master of the short story form. "Richly imagined.""synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
"Ricocheting from the war-torn twentieth century to the reality-show-rich present day, the stories in this impressive collection feature characters buffeted by fate--or is it mere happenstance? . . . Our sense of history is probed, too, not without humor."
--The New Yorker
"It's impossible to resist the spell this collection's 17 stories weave. Wide in range and deep in feeling, Music for Wartime further confirms what The Hundred-Year House made clear: Rebecca Makkai is a writer of the first order, a writer whose name deserves to become well known among all discerning readers of fiction."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
"[Makkai's] stories were anthologized in The Best American Short Stories for four years in a row, and Music for Wartime proves these honors were well-deserved, highlighting her poised voice, willingness to experiment, deft hand at structure, and capacity to surprise... Makkai brilliantly demonstrates that art can never be merely tangential to the lives of people who care about it."
--Dallas Morning News
"I have been waiting for this collection since 2008, when I read "The Worst You Ever Feel" and it basically took the top of my head off. Deeply intelligent, stylistically playful, full of razor wit and grave historical accounting, what is most enthralling about these stories is their insistence that the political and the personal are never separate categories, that art's attempt to make sense of the senseless is at least as noble as it is doomed, and that atrocities large and small begin, as love does, in the human heart."
--Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted
"It's not often you read a story collection with the range and depth of Rebecca Makkai's Music for Wartime. The stories are about war and guilt and secrets, but also about romance and art and reality TV, and they come together, as the best collections do, as an assured and satisfying whole. It's a wonderful book, haunting, funny, and wise."
--Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
"Rebecca Makkai's Music for Wartime is a collection of the first order. The stories diverge and coalesce, practically in conversation with one another, always hewing to the varied consolations of beauty in the midst of conflict. To read one is to crave the next, each story feeding a pang you didn't quite know you had. Music for Wartime isn't a song, it's a sublime double-LP."
--Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A short-story collection from the acclaimed author of The Great BelieversNamed a must-read by the Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and The L MagazineRebecca Makkais first two novels, The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the award-winning writer, whose stories have appeared in four consecutive editions of The Best American Short Stories, returns with a highly anticipated collection bearing her signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart. A reality show producer manipulates two contestants into falling in love, even as her own relationship falls apart. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young boy has a revelation about his fathers past when a renowned Romanian violinist plays a concert in their home. When the prized elephant of a traveling circus keels over dead, the small-town minister tasked with burying its remains comes to question his own faith. In an unnamed country, a composer records the folk songs of two women from a village on the brink of destruction. These transporting, deeply moving storiessome inspired by her own family historyamply demonstrate Makkais extraordinary range as a storyteller, and confirm her as a master of the short story form. Richly imagined. Chicago Tribune Impressive. O, The Oprah Magazine Engrossing. Minneapolis Star-Tribune Inventive. W Magazine A collection of wide-ranging short stories, including several inspired by the author's family history or featuring protagonists whose lives are shaped by irony. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780143109235
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