{"title":"World \u0026 Regional","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"not-art-paperback","title":"Not Art - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Esterhazy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most interesting and original writers of our time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Mario Vargas Llosa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of 2004 Peace Prize--Germany's most prestigious literary honor--Peter Esterhazy, author of the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eCelestial Harmonies, \u003c\/em\u003eoffers us \u003cem\u003eNot Art, \u003c\/em\u003ea uniquely brilliant novelized exploration of his mother's life. 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After the publication of his books on his father Celestial Harmonies and Revised Edition, this sentence and the preceding book on his mother′s death, broken up into auxiliary verbs, now gain new meaning twenty-three years later in Not Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Not Art is the book of the reawakened mother, a mother who knows the offside rule, and whose language, which determines her relationship to the world, is the language of football. The son only exists in relation to it, just as everything and everyone else only exists in relation to this mother′s football language. Football, in the author′s last book a stage and a medium for private historiography, now acts as a worldview, its roots in his relationship to his mother and his mother tongue: a mother′s language complex. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Readers seeking ′family stories′ will find them - in subtly written, rounded stories. Those looking for emotions will find them too: platonic love, marital love filled with tenderness, and of course love for his mother and father. And those interested in the esterházyesque auto-reflexive textual world (where does the author begin and end) will not be disappointed either. Irony, beauty, history, the Magnificent Magyars, father, grandmother, aunt, uncle, mother, life and death, especially death, but beautifully written. And life too, of course, which comes before death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ′My mother talked her way through the entire sixties and seventies in French. Boy, even comrade sounds bearable in French. She slipped into the French language as if into a bunker. No, a bunker would be more German, concrete protection; language is a lighter form of asylum, if danger were ahead it would provide no protection, a hiding place, a hideout, a wing under which one cannot shelter. Whenever she left French she immediately moved into football. 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To shield Pearl, Daniel must literally fight for their survival, stepping into the ring with a monstrous opponent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDazzling and poignant, \u003ci\u003e The Blackbirds of St. Giles\u003c\/i\u003e propels us into an extraordinary, too long overlooked community and period in history, when the threat of servitude is ever-present, and some ghosts of the past can never be escaped . . .\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLila Cain \u003c\/b\u003eis a pseudonym for the writing duo of Kate Griffin and Marcia Hutchinson. \u003cb\u003eKate Griffin\u003c\/b\u003e won the Faber\/Stylist Magazine competition \u003ci\u003ewith Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders\u003c\/i\u003e and went on to write 3 more books in the series. Her first stand-alone novel, \u003ci\u003eFyneshade\u003c\/i\u003e, is now available. 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