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National Bestseller
A masterful literary talent explores the treacherous, often violent borders between war and sex, love and art.
With the flash of a camera, one girl’s life is shattered, and a host of others altered forever. . .
In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. The image wins acclaim and prizes, becoming an icon for millions—and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer’s best friend, who has suffered a devastating tragedy of her own.
As the writer plunges into a suicidal depression, her filmmaker husband enlists several friends, including a fearless bisexual poet and an ingenuous performance artist, to save her by rescuing the unknown girl and bringing her to the United States. And yet, as their plot unfolds, everything we know about the story comes into question: What does the writer really want? Who is controlling the action? And what will happen when these two worlds—east and west, real and virtual—collide?
A fierce, provocative, and deeply affecting novel of both ideas and action that blends the tight construction of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending with the emotional power of Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children is a major step forward from one of our most avidly watched writers.
- Sales Rank: #76057 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-07-07
- Released on: 2015-07-07
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“I have never felt so wrung out by a novel and yet simultaneously invigorated…a terrifically good novel and powerfully written.” (Paris Review)
“This is a novel for the bold of heart.” (New York Journal of Books)
“An intensely corporal, potently feminist, tenaciously written work as alert to animal resilience as to the capacity for bruised and battered suffering, for desire, for ecstasy.” (Boston Globe)
Advance Praise for THE SMALL BACKS OF CHILDREN
“Yuknavitch is a gifted writer whose dizzying passages are often as compelling as they are grotesque.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Lidia Yuknavitch burns through sex, art, and war in The Small Backs of Children.” (Vanity Fair)
“Lidia Yuknavitch’ s explosive new novel…is fierce in its vision, with captivating prose that carries its own momentum. Yuknavitch has created a reading experience that is uncomfortable and dazzling, with a vital intensity that grabs at the gutstrings.” (Los Angeles Times)
“The Small Backs of Children beautifully examines the fractures of loss and the myriad ways we can recover from it. ” (Huffington Post)
“Gorgeous, scary, and a breathtaking rush to read, this book is less a meditation than a provocation on the power and dangers of art.” (Library Journal (starred review))
“Lidia Yuknavitch’s first novel for a big publisher is a big winner.” (The Oregonian)
“If you want a novel that is going to swallow you alive this summer, turn to Lidia Yuknavitch whose The Small Backs of Children is the kind of book that goes straight for your heart and your mind…This one is important.” (Bustle Summer Reading Roundup)
“The Small Backs of Children proves once again that Yuknavitch is witness to the kind of stories we ought to read.” (The Rumpus.com)
“[An example] of thrilling storytelling with universal appeal.” (Entertainment Weekly)
“Yuknavitch has a point of view and a fragmented and fractured visionary elegance in her poetic, allusive punk-infused voice. She grabs readers by the throats and immerses them in an intense, wrenching fictive world, but lets them up for air through careful structuring and pacing.” (Buffalo News)
“In the latest book from Lidia Yuknavitch, she delves into the aftermath of conflict and tragedy, showing how one image can impact the lives of numerous characters...” (Vol 1Brooklyn)
“Yuknavitch’s writing style works in absolutes and blanket statements like large swaths of color on a canvas…if you ask me to follow Yuknavitch’s plume into a raw, experimental work, I gladly will.” (Portland Mercury)
“Yuknavitch writes about art, violence, sex, ferocity, willpower and womanhood with explosive force, in a language that evokes modern mythology.” (LitHub)
“The Small Backs of Children is deeply complex and layered, yet also deceptively simple…exquisite in its lyricism and its ability to articulate and amplify the experiences of suffering and survival.” (The Nervous Breakdown)
“Lidia Yuknavitch’s writing is a sizzle wire. Her fierce prose will jumpstart your heart and electrify your brain…and her new novel, The Small Backs of Children is a provocative and thrilling jolt of a book.” (Bustle)
“…this story packs a powerful punch. It may sound heavy but, trust us, everyone is going to be talking about this book.” (Boats International)
From the Back Cover
In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. The image, instantly iconic, garners acclaim and prizes—and, in the United States, becomes a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer's best friend, who has suffered a devastating tragedy of her own.
In a bid to save the writer from a spiraling depression, her filmmaker husband enlists a group of friends—including a fearless bisexual poet, an ingenuous performance artist, and the writer's playwright brother and painter ex-husband—to rescue the unknown girl and bring her to the United States. And yet, as their plot unfolds, everything we know comes into question: What does the writer really want? Who is controlling the action? And what will happen when these two worlds—East and West, real and virtual—collide?
A fierce, provocative, and deeply affecting novel exploring the often violent borders between war and sex, love and art, The Small Backs of Children is a major step forward from one of our most avidly watched writers.
About the Author
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author�of the National Bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, the novel Dora: A Headcase, and three books of short stories. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. She founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland Oregon, where she also teaches Women's Studies, Film Studies, Writing, and Literature. She received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. Her novel The Book of Joan is forthcoming from Harper, as well as a book based on her recent TED Talk, The Misfit's Manifesto. She lives in Oregon with her husband Andy Mingo and their renaissance man son, Miles. She is a very good swimmer.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
this is the perfect book. Told from the viewpoint of a company ...
By Elaine
If you are the kind of person who likes to challenge her mind when she reads, this is the perfect book. Told from the viewpoint of a company of characters, The Small Backs of Children asks the reader to question herself, not simply as regards art and sex, but, mainly, the accident of birth. The child in question is from a war-torn country, her beginnings not that much different than those of our own children until, as a consequence of random violence due to endemic strife, her life and family are literally blown apart. The girl survives, projected forward by the force of the blast, an incident that is almost accidentally captured by a Western photographer. The reverberations of that image jolts a loosely linked band of artists to their roots, and the why and how of the girl's rescue form a gripping narrative that propels the reader through the book.
There are scenes that depict sex in ways that may offend the mores of some, though not unlike the way Nabokov challenged us with Humbert Humbert. And Yuknavitch's language is equally as beautiful. This is a book every thinking person should read, and one that deserves broad recognition.
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
The Small Backs of Children is a gift.
By J. Forester
Like her teacher before her, Ken Kesey, his contemporary William Burroughs, and Joyce, Faulkner and Kerouac before them (all men), Lidia Yuknavitch has changed what a narrative fiction can be. How narrative can exist and live in this world as art. She leads both the novel form and Daisy Miller from Henry James' drawing room and sets her against a world of pain and war and darkness on a white, white canvass where there is no place to hide. Yuknavitch's is a new landscape, a portrait painted with words drawn lovingly and violently from the bodies of women and flung against the mask of what we, as a culture, wish we were and tell ourselves we are.
This book has changed me forever and I will imagine painting, film, poem, photography and narrative fiction differently, estimate art with a different soul. The rhythm of the language, the rhythm of the images, and the structure of the interwoven stories build not only a nearly unbearable dramatic tension, but slip like scent into the mind and dwell there. I will dream this work. Yuknavitch has broken my heart and restored my faith. It is a gift.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Not to be missed!
By A Pronti
One of the best books I've read this year. This one moves right up there with All The Light We Cannot See as the best I've read in a long time. Lidia Yuknavitch isn't afraid of anything. A beautiful, haunting, devising novel. So good I've finished it and turned right back to page one to read it again.
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