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- Book Synopsis
- Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbour or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbour, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise above the drunken mess of her own life to become a loving aunt. One sister consumes the ashes of another. And, in the title story, an experimental artist takes on his most ambitious project yet: constructing a life-size ark according to the Bible's specifications. In a world defined by estrangement, where is communion to be found? The characters in This Is Salvaged, unmoored in turbulence, are searching fervently for meaning, through one another.
- About The Author
- Vauhini Vara has been a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine, and is the awardwinning author of The Immortal King Rao, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781804710623
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Grove Press UK, (01 February 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 235 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 215 x 139 x 15 mm
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