Name: Unfit
SKU: 64625485
Price: 679.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Ariana Harwicz
ISBN: 9780811238892

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ariana Harwicz

Publisher

New Directions

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780811238892

Unfit

Ariana Harwicz (Author) · New Directions · Paperback

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Synopsis "Unfit"

Lisa has lost custody of her young twin boys. Caught between the French legal system's sluggish bureaucracy and her sinister, scheming in-laws, she's alone and lost, an Argentine migrant in rural France picking grapes for a pittance, only allowed to see her children in supervised visits once a month. Scapegoated and outcast, destitute and desperate, Lisa decides to take radical action: early one morning, she sneaks into her in-laws' farmhouse, takes back her children, sets the barn ablaze, and makes her escape. What follows is a white-knuckled road trip that explores human beings pushed to the edge.Clearly, Lisa is not in her right mind, and as Harwicz deftly mingles a chorus of contradictory voices into her very unreliable narration, the reader comes to regard the protagonist with an unsettling mixture of sympathy and suspicion. Written in savage, chiseled prose, Unfit shoots off, a gripping chase that questions all our assumptions--and points out our hypocrisies--about motherhood, custody rights, love, violence, antisemitism, and migration. The latest novel by the acclaimed author of Die, My Love (soon to be adapted to a film starring Jennifer Lawrence), Unfit is addictively terrifying, savagely sophisticated, and shockingly brilliant.

Ariana Harwicz

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Ariana Harwicz was born in Buenos Aires in 1977 and has been living in the countryside in France since 2007. Her first novel, Matate, amor (2012), was published in English in 2017 under the title Die, My Love. A finalist for the First Book Award by the EIBF in 2017, the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Man Booker International in 2018, and the BTBA in 2020, Matate, amor has been adapted for the theater and in 2024 will be made into a film by Martin Scorsese, directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Jennifer Lawrence. Her fourth novel, Degenerado, was published by Anagrama in 2019. Her works have been adapted for the theater in various countries in Latin America and Europe. In 2021 she published Desertar, a book of conversations about translation and desertion of the mother tongue written together with Mikaël Gómez Guthart. Her stories appear in media such as Harper's, Granta, Letras Libres, Babelia, The White Review, Brick, Paris Review, The New Yorker, La Quinzaine littéraire, Quimera, and The Guardian, and in various anthologies. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2022 Anagrama compiled her first three novels in a volume titled Trilogía de la pasión. In 2023 she published El ruido de una época, an essay about literary Evil and contemporary extortions. She has also written the libretto for the opera Dementia, which will premiere at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in the 2025 season. Her most recent work is Perder el juicio.

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