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Zazen
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Vanessa Veselka
A proposito di questo titolo
“An ambitious encapsulation of our modern times, Zazen tackles counterculture hipsters, geology, Buddhism, consumerism, terrorism, veganism, family drama, and, above all, love." —Judges' Citation, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
The world is on fire, and Della doesn’t know what, if anything, she should do about it.
The country is poised on the brink of war. Curfews and other restrictions give the police an excuse for violence. Customers at the vaguely vegan cafe where Della is working after dropping out of grad school debate which foreign countries are the best to flee to: Costa Rica? Bali? Della’s parents—former revolutionaries—are more excited at the idea of her brother and his Black wife giving them biracial grandbabies than in engaging in any new actions; her nominally activist coworkers are mostly devoted to planning a massive sex party. Della floats between them, lost and numb.
Then a bomb goes off: some shallow place of capitalistic worship demolished. Inspired, for reasons not entirely clear to herself, Della calls in a second—fake—bomb threat. But a bomb goes off there, too, and soon Della finds herself pulled in by a group of people who, for once, are promising to actually do something. No matter the consequences. Prescient when it was first published, Vanessa Veselka’s debut novel is even more revolutionary now.
A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.
Recensioni della critica
“Zazen felt like the future when it first appeared, but the present also—like Veselka had created her own genre just to describe how we were and who we’d become. Electric, visionary, I think it will always be a bellwether of a novel.” —Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night
“Zazen is revolutionary. Gorgeously written, deeply intelligent, explosive, it is a vicious and nuanced takedown of the neo-liberal state, and the reactionary, identity-besotted left that opposes it. As forests burn and cities are gentrified and billionaires launch themselves into space, there is no better time for this story of terror and joy and the intoxicating freedom of resisting authority in all its insidious guises. Veselka is a genius, an outsider philosopher for the ages.” —Cara Hoffman, founding editor, The Anarchist Review of Books
“Veselka’s prose is chiseled and laced with arsenic observations. . . . Veselka makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness.” —Publishers Weekly
“Veselka honors the complexity of a young, intelligent generation at once confused and overwhelmed, but willing to enact change. . . . Zazen is a satiric examination of the real and perceived boundaries of activism and idealism in twenty-first-century America.” —Kenyon Review
“Powerful. . . . A streaking flash of barbed satire and 21st century malaise.” —The New York Journal of Books
“Vital and explosive, this book is not to be missed.” —Flavorwire
“Zazen has a power beyond the satire and the clever reimagining of today’s counterculture trends. It also has heart and soul.” —The Oregonian
“Veselka grabs plot by the lapels and brings it to the forefront of the book without sacrificing the effectiveness of the more ethereal aspects of good fiction.” —The Millions
“Vanessa Veselka is something like a literary comet: bright-burning, far-reaching, rarely seen, and a little dangerous.” —Tom Bissell
“At turns hilarious, unsettling, and improbably sweet, Veselka’s debut is, above all, a highly engaging, and totally unique experience, which will have you rereading passages and dog-earing pages. But best of all, in the end, Zazen is that rare novel which dares to be hopeful in the face of despair, and succeeds.” —Jonathan Evison, author of Lawn Boy
“Zazen is revolutionary. Gorgeously written, deeply intelligent, explosive, it is a vicious and nuanced takedown of the neo-liberal state, and the reactionary, identity-besotted left that opposes it. As forests burn and cities are gentrified and billionaires launch themselves into space, there is no better time for this story of terror and joy and the intoxicating freedom of resisting authority in all its insidious guises. Veselka is a genius, an outsider philosopher for the ages.” —Cara Hoffman, founding editor, The Anarchist Review of Books
“Veselka’s prose is chiseled and laced with arsenic observations. . . . Veselka makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness.” —Publishers Weekly
“Veselka honors the complexity of a young, intelligent generation at once confused and overwhelmed, but willing to enact change. . . . Zazen is a satiric examination of the real and perceived boundaries of activism and idealism in twenty-first-century America.” —Kenyon Review
“Powerful. . . . A streaking flash of barbed satire and 21st century malaise.” —The New York Journal of Books
“Vital and explosive, this book is not to be missed.” —Flavorwire
“Zazen has a power beyond the satire and the clever reimagining of today’s counterculture trends. It also has heart and soul.” —The Oregonian
“Veselka grabs plot by the lapels and brings it to the forefront of the book without sacrificing the effectiveness of the more ethereal aspects of good fiction.” —The Millions
“Vanessa Veselka is something like a literary comet: bright-burning, far-reaching, rarely seen, and a little dangerous.” —Tom Bissell
“At turns hilarious, unsettling, and improbably sweet, Veselka’s debut is, above all, a highly engaging, and totally unique experience, which will have you rereading passages and dog-earing pages. But best of all, in the end, Zazen is that rare novel which dares to be hopeful in the face of despair, and succeeds.” —Jonathan Evison, author of Lawn Boy
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