Новинки Софии Саматар

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhausted dreamer in this brilliant science fiction novella tackling the carceral state and violence embedded in the ivory tower while embodying the legacy of Ursula K. Le Guin.

The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes―literally―when he is yanked “upstairs” and informed he has been given an opportunity to be educated at the ship’s university alongside the elite.

Overwhelmed and alone, the boy forms a bond with the woman he comes to know as “the professor,” a weary idealist and descendent of the Chained who has spent her career striving for validation from her more senior colleagues, only to fall short at every turn.

Together, the boy and the woman will embark on a transformative journey to grasp the design of the chains that fetter them both―and are the key to breaking free.

Перед вами самая что ни на есть реальная история. Мать Софии Саматар, автора этой книги, — американка швейцарского происхождения из Северной Дакоты, христианка, меннонитка, отец — сомалиец, мусульманин. Они встретились в Сомали, куда мама Софии приехала в качестве миссионерки преподавать английский, а отец учил приезжих местному языку (хотя сам он был пастухом в пустыне). Они полюбили друг друга, уехали в Америку, и родилась София. Спустя много лет успешная писательница, профессор английского языка, африканской и арабской литературы София Саматар получит в подарок книгу «Великое переселение российских меннонитов в Среднюю Азию,…

Relentlessly original and brilliantly hybrid, Monster Portraits investigates the concept of the monstrous through a mesmerizing combination of words and images. An uncanny autobiography of otherness, it offers the record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of mixed-race children growing up Somali-American in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday—Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief notes and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts.

Del Samatar's drawings conjure beings who drag worlds in their wake. World Fantasy Award-winning author Sofia Samatar responds with allusive, critical, and ecstatic meditations. Together they have created a secret history of the multi-racial child, a guide to the beasts of an unknown mythos, and a dreamer's iconography. Monster Portraits resonates in a world obsessed with the Other, using captivating nomenclature, art, fiction, and essay to examine society’s damaging desire to define and divide. The monstrous never looked so simultaneously haunting and familiar.

The first collection of short fiction from a rising star whose stories have been anthologized in the first two volumes of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series and nominated for many awards. Some of Samatar’s weird and tender fabulations spring from her life and her literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void.

Four women — a soldier, a scholar, a poet, and a socialite — are caught up on opposing sides of a violent rebellion. As war erupts and their loyalties and agendas and ideologies come into conflict, the four fear their lives may pass unrecorded. Using the sword and the pen, the body and the voice, they struggle not just to survive, but to make history

Jevick, syn handlarza pieprzu, wychowywał się na opowieściach o Olondrii, odległej krainie, gdzie ksiąki – niezwykle rzadkie w jego ojczyźnie – są czymś często spotykanym. Po śmierci ojca Jevick wyrusza zamiast niego na coroczną wyprawę handlową do Olondrii. Jego życie wydaje się bliskie doskonałości, ale gdy raduje się Świętem Ptaków, zaczyna go prześladować duch niepiśmiennej dziewczyny z jego ojczyzny.
Zdesperowany Jevick szuka pomocy u olondryjskich kapłanów i staje się pionkiem w rozgrywce między dwiema najpotężniejszymi frakcjami w imperium. Pojawia się groźba wojny domowej. Jevick musi stawić czoło duchowi i poznać jego historię. Ta próba stanowi wyzwanie dla jego wyobrażeń o sztuce i życiu, o domu i wygnaniu...

Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. But just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl. In desperation, Jevick seeks the aid of Olondrian priests and quickly becomes a pawn in the struggle between the empire's two most powerful cults. Yet even as the country shimmers on the cusp…