Towelhead
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- 9,99 US$
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- 9,99 US$
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Alicia Erians Towelhead är en högaktuell bok om trettonåriga Jasiras sexuella uppvaknande i det tidiga nittiotalets USA. Medan landet förbereder sitt första krig mot Saddam, Gulfkriget, blir Jasiras mamma svartsjuk på det intresse som pojkvännen visar dottern och hon skickas till sin libanesiske pappa i Texas. Jasira vantrivs med pappans strikta och motsägelsefulla regler och oförmögen att handskas med sin ensamhet och kropp söker hon uppmärksamhet på alla ställen hon kan, något den medelålders grannen Mr Vuoso uttnyttjar.
Alicia Erian bor i Brooklyn, New York, och skriver i Zoetrope och Nerve. Towelhead är hennes första roman. Hennes debutbok, novellsamlingen Kärlekens brutala språk, utkom på Modernista 2004.
Pressröster:
»Jag blir inte deprimerad, bara mer och mer fascinerad av det alltmer obehagliga, mästerligt iscensatta kammarspelet. Utan att bli spekulativ, lolitisk, lyckas Erian, rentav med skönhet, gestalta Jasiras hemliga guldåder, trots övergreppen«
Örjan Abrahamsson, VI
»Det är äckligt, snuskigt, politiskt inkorrekt och inkonsekvent. Allt som händer i mellanrummen är liksom poängen. Jag fattar inte hur Erian gör det, men det är bra.«
Rebecka Åhlund, Borås Tidning
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Erian (The Brutal Language of Love) takes a dogged, unflinching look at what happens as a young woman's sexuality blooms when only a predatory neighbor is paying attention. After 13-year-old Jasira is sent to live with her father in Houston ("I didn't want to live with Daddy. He had a weird accent and came from Lebanon"), she finds herself coming of age in the shadow of his old world, authoritarian ideas, which include a ban on tampons (they're for married women, he insists) and a friendship with a boy who's black. Trapped between her father's rigidity and a wider culture that seems without rules, Jasira is left to handle puberty on her own, as well as her budding sexual desire and an ongoing longing for love and acceptance. Her creepy neighbor, Mr. Vuoso, senses her desires, and she responds eagerly to his sexual overtures. His willingness to eroticize her is heightened by how exotic as well as distasteful he finds her, a half Middle Eastern child living in America on the eve of the first Gulf War. He hires Jasira to baby-sit for his son, and it's clear that their relationship will destroy them. The writing is not subtle indeed, it can be quite clunky but as a meditation on race, adolescence and alienation, the novel has moments of power.
