Falling is Like Flying - Softcover

Uphoff, Manon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782277064 ISBN 13: 9781782277064

Publisher: Pushkin Press, 2022

Synopsis

This is a story she never wanted to tell, but in the end she had no choice. When her older sister dies at the age of sixty-nine, it brings back a past the author thought she had left behind. Incensed, she delves back into her childhood, recreating the abusive world that she grew up in, ruled over by her tyrannical father, The Minotaur. In a narrative by turns shockingly dark and strangely beautiful, she retraces her path through the phantasmagorical labyrinth, bringing a tale of silent trauma to a triumphant, raucous conclusion. Falling is Like Flying is an extraordinary autobiographical story of abuse and resilience, a literary triumph that reminds us what language is capable of.

About this title

About the Authors

MANON UPHOFF was born in 1962 into a family of 13 children. She left home at 16, went on to study literary theory and is now an acclaimed artist and writer, whose novels have been shortlisted for numerous prizes. Falling is Like Flying has been a literary phenomenon in the Netherlands, making 32 'Best of 2019' lists, being shortlisted for 4 awards and winning the prestigious Charlotte Köhler Prize. It is the first of Manon's books to be translated into English.


Twitter: @manonuphoff
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www.manonuphoff.com

SAM GARRETT has translated some 50 novels and works of nonfiction. He has won prizes and appeared on shortlists for some of the world's most prestigious literary awards, and is the only translator to have twice won the British Society of Authors' Vondel Prize for Dutch-English translation.

From the Back Cover

The darkly beautiful autobiographical story of a childhood spent in the shadow of a domineering, abusive father.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782277064
• ISBN 13: 9781782277064
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192