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Irina Kovalyova - Specimen, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Astoria

Specimen

Stories

Av Irina Kovalyova

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Winner, 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Fiction Finalist, 2016 Ethel Wilson Fiction PrizeThe stories in Specimen are a unique exploration of science and the human heart; the place where physical reality collides with our spiritual and emotional lives.In “The Blood Keeper,” a young academic travels to North Korea to work on her dissertation and embarks on a dangerous affair. In “Mamochka,” which was nominated for the 2012 Journey Prize, an archivist at the Institute for Physics in Minsk, must come to terms with her daughter’s marriage to a Chinese man in Vancouver. In “Peptide P,” scientists study a disease that seems to affect children after they eat hotdogs. In “Side Effects,” a woman’s personality is altered, and not necessarily for the better, by botox injections. In “The Big One,” a woman and her daughter find themselves trapped in the rubble of an underground parking garage after an earthquake.Stylistically varied and with settings that range from North Korea and Minsk to Vancouver and Gdansk, Kovalyova is daring and confident new voice in Canadian fiction.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-04-28
  • Mått: 133 x 203 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 299 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Astoria
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
  • ISBN: 9781770898172
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of Kobo Emerging Writer Prize 2016 (Canada)
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IRINA KOVALYOVA has a Master’s degree in Chemistry from Brown University, a doctoral degree in Microbiology from Queen’s University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University. She has previously interned for NASA and worked for two years as a forensic analyst in New York City. She was born in Russia and currently lives in Vancouver.

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“To read Irina Kovalyova is to peer through a microscope and discover worlds infinitely big and exquisitely small. These stories are luminous. They capture light. They cast sharp shadows. They take root in your heart. I have never read stories like these, and I long to read more. Rare specimens, indeed.” — Jessica Grant, author of Come, Thou Tortoise, winner of the Amazon First Novel Award

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