Sweetlust: Stories by Bakic, Asja

Sweetlust: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781952177729)

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Sweetlust: Stories by Bakic, Asja

Sweetlust: Stories

$16.95
Sweetlust: Stories by Bakic, Asja

Sweetlust: Stories

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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The eleven stories in Sweetlust interweave feminist critique, intertextuality, and science fiction tropes in an irreverent portrait of our past, present, and future.In a dystopian world with no men, women are "rehabilitated" at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of The Sorrows of Young Werther refocuses to center a sexually adventurous Charlotte.Asja Bakic deploys the speculative and weird to playfully interrogate conversations around artificial intelligence, gender fluidity, and environmental degradation. As she did in her acclaimed debut Mars, Bakic once again upends her characters' convictions and identities--and infuses each disorienting universe with sly humor and off-kilter eroticism. Visceral and otherworldly, Sweetlust takes apart human desire and fragility, repeatedly framing pleasure as both inviting and perilous.

Author: Asja Bakic
ISBN-10: 1952177723
ISBN-13: 9781952177729
Publisher: Feminist Press
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2023
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/01/2022 pg. 116
Foreword 12/27/2022
By Asja Bakic
By Asja Bakic
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Asja Bakic is a Bosnian author of poetry and prose, as well as a translator. She was selected as one of Literary Europe Live's New Voices from Europe 2017, and her writing has been translated into seven languages. Her debut, Mars, was published in English by Feminist Press in 2019. She currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

Jennifer Zoble translates Balkan literature into English. Recent books include Call Me Esteban (Sandorf Passage 2021), her translation of Zovite me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujic, and Mars (Feminist Press 2019), which was selected by Publishers Weekly for the fiction list in its "Best Books 2019" issue. She is on the faculty of Liberal Studies at New York University, where she teaches writing and translation.

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