Arcadia by Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam (English) Paperback Book

Description: Arcadia by Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam, Ruth Diver "Original title: Arcadie, initially published by Editions POL, Paris, France, 2018"--Copyright page. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description An English-language debut that reveals and subverts contemporary conceptions of normative sexuality, capitalist culture, and environmental degradation.An English-language debut that reveals and subverts contemporary conceptions of normative sexuality, capitalist culture, and environmental degradation.Winner, Prix du Livre Inter, 2019Shortlisted for the Prix Femina, Prix Medicis, Prix de FloreLonglisted for the Prix France-Culture, Prix WeplerFarah moves into Liberty House-an arcadia, a community in harmony with nature-at the tender age of six, with her family. The communes spiritual leader, Arcady, preaches equality, non-violence, anti-speciesism, free love, and uninhibited desire for all, regardless of gender, age, looks, or ability. At fifteen, Farah learns she is intersex, and begins to go beyond the confines of gender, as she explores the arc of her own desires. What, Farah asks, is a man or a woman? What does it mean to be part of a community? What is utopia when there are refugees nearby seeking shelter who cannot enter?Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam delivers a magisterial novel, both a celebration and a critique of innocence in the contemporary world. Author Biography EMMANUELLE BAYAMACK-TAM was born in 1966 in Marseille. She has published twelve novels and two plays with P.O.L Editeur, three, under the pseudonym Rebecca Lighieri. She is a founding member of the interdisciplinary association Autres et Pareils and co-director of ditions Contre-Pied. Arcadia, her first book in translation, won the Prix du Livre Inter; was shortlisted for the Prix Femina, Prix Medicis, and Prix de Flore; and longlisted for the Prix France-Culture and Prix Wepler. She lives in Paris. RUTH DIVER has translated works by several of Frances leading contemporary novelists, including The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adelaide Bon, The Revolt by Clara Dupont-Monod, and A Respectable Occupation by Julia Kerninon. Her translation of Maraudes by Sophie Pujas won the 2016 Asymptote Close Approximations Fiction Prize. Review "A fantastic journey to a world where sex and gender binary differences and the distinctions between the normal and the pathological dissolve and transmute not without risk. Using a language full of humor and subtlety, Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam manages to capture the contradictions and complexities of the period we live in at the end of a political regime where new configurations of subjectivity, belonging, love and kinship are still taking shape but are not yet fully recognized. Moving and illuminating." —Paul B. Preciado, author of An Apartment on Uranus"So funny, full of joie de vivre, bursting with vitality and life." —Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia"French writer Bayamack-Tams rich English-language debut chronicles the coming-of-age adventures of a teenage girl who lives in a commune with her family. After moving from Paris, Farah adjusts to new life at Liberty House, a technology-free space where the harmonious love conquers all credo is echoed among the followers and promoted by their spiritual guru, Arcady. Farah and her family are de-baptized and renamed upon entering the community, and remain carefully attuned to Arcadys daily exegesis and impassioned sermons. Farah is a bulky, awkward adolescent who soon discovers she is intersex and grapples with conflicting male and female impulses. Meanwhile, she is coddled by an increasingly creepy Arcady, who passionately promises her unconditional acceptance and unbridled sex with him once shes old enough. Eventually, Farah learns to embrace and treasure the androgynous creature"her body has become, particularly after a migrant integrates himself into the community and promotes independence among Arcadys followers. While the supporting characters are a bit too thinly drawn, Bayamack-Tam builds out the familys swift acclimation to Liberty House with clever detail and flashes of humor, as when Farahs nudist grandmother frolics on the communes grounds and her mother claims to suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. It all adds up to an engrossing and provocative character study." —Publishers Weekly"Subversive, funny, political, erudite, Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam confirms with Arcadie that she is one of the most astonishing female novelists of our time."—Les Inrockuptibles Review Quote "A fantastic journey to a world where sex and gender binary differences and the distinctions between the normal and the pathological dissolve and transmute not without risk. Using a language full of humor and subtlety, Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam manages to capture the contradictions and complexities of the period we live in at the end of a political regime where new configurations of subjectivity, belonging, love and kinship are still taking shape but are not yet fully recognized. Moving and illuminating." --Paul B. Preciado, author of An Apartment on Uranus Details ISBN1644210533 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1644210533 ISBN-13 9781644210536 Format Paperback Author Ruth Diver Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S. Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Pages 368 Publication Date 2021-05-25 AU Release Date 2021-05-25 NZ Release Date 2021-05-25 US Release Date 2021-05-25 UK Release Date 2021-05-25 Translator Ruth Diver DEWEY 843.914 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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