PRAISE FOR JANA BEŇOVÁ’S SEEING PEOPLE OFF
*Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature.
“‘Seeing People Off is a fascinating novel. Fans of inward-looking postmodernists like Clarice Lispector will find much to admire here.” —NPR
“Stunning… [Beňová] has created that unique and uniquely satisfying phenomenon of a page-turner that must yet be read slowly and precisely.”
—Necessary Fiction
“[Beňová] is in the first generation of post-Soviet writers for whom scarcity and censorship is a recent memory, and the political is always lurking just behind the breezy Aimee Bender—like prose.”
—Publishers Weekly
“These stories explore death and other kinds of leaving in wry, fresh ways. The end of childhood, the end of an affair, the end of sanity—when I arrived at the end of this book, I found myself returning to the beginning. This is a merry-go-round one can hold on to.”
—Kenyon Review
“Beňová’s short, fast novels are a revolution against normality. Unlike so many others, her novels not only claim to be a revolution but actually achieve this feat through their minimalist narratives that go against all conventions; in fact, Beňová manages to subtly and intelligently poke fun at conventional categorizations.”
—Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, ORF
Away! Away! JANA BEŇOVÁ
Translated by Janet Livingstone
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Elevated places—tops of hills, vineyards. Cafés and wine bars with high spirits. Double-decker buses, planes, hot air balloons, and trees.
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ANYTHING ELSE? Unfortunately, yes. Do not copy this book—with the exception of quotes used in critical essays and reviews—without the written permission of the publisher. WE MUST ALSO POINT OUT THAT THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s lively imagination. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental, with the exception of Gerda, Kai, and the reindeer from the fairytale The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.
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