Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen Paperback Book

Description: Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen Riveting Margaret AtwoodI loved this book intensely Lauren Groff Guardian FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Riveting Margaret AtwoodI loved this book intensely Lauren Groff Guardian The plague is spreading. The hundred year war is beginning. Katharina Kepler is believed to be a witch.Known for her herbal remedies and successful children – among them Johannes, Imperial Mathematician and author of the laws of planetary motion – Katharinas life is changed by an accusation of witchcraft. Facing financial ruin, torture and even execution, she tells her side of the story.Witty, engaging and vividly imagined, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch draws on historical documents to illuminate a society undone by collective aggression and hysterical fear – a narrative with true resonance for today.Darkly funny … Her prose, which recalls Hilary Mantels Wolf Hall, is light, pared back and subtly archaic Financial TimesSuperbly voiced … funny TelegraphA magical brew of absurdity and brutality Washington PostGalchen expertly weaves together a story told from multiple perspectives, showing how easy it is for a mob mentality to take hold in a climate of fear and ignorance when a woman simply exists outside of the norm New York Times Author Biography Rivka Galchen received her MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Her fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Believer, Harpers, The New Yorker, Scientific American and The New York Times. This is her first novel. Review Praise for Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch:Funny in parts, absurd in others … This riveting novel takes us into the labyrinthine hearts of accused and accusers alike Margaret AtwoodSuperbly voiced … funny … the absurdity, rompiness and obsession with food (usually sausages) are spot on for the era, but so too is an inescapable sense of loss TelegraphA wise meditation on the kind of hysterical scapegoating we see so often in the age of the internet … I loved this book intensely when I read it this summer and have thought of it nearly every day through this strange autumn Lauren Groff, GuardianHer prose, which recalls Hilary Mantels Wolf Hall, is light, pared back and subtly archaic. Moments where she nods at the contemporary obsession with witchcraft are funny rather than sincere … Its this dry humour that makes the novel sparkle Financial TimesIt is remarkable that Rivka Galchens Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch manages to pull off … a witch story that is as serious as Millers play and as playful as Updikes novel … a persuasive and very beautiful work of fiction … this writer can animate even the most familiar material, and make it beautifully, and memorably, new Wyatt Mason, Wall Street JournalDelightfully funny … Galchen has written another smart book that investigates the power of narrative, both good and bad, foregrounding a woman whod only been a footnote to a famous mans story, all while being funny and deceptively easy to read. Its quite a magic trick Los Angeles TimesThe comedy that runs through Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a magical brew of absurdity and brutality. Galchen has a Kafkaesque sense of the way the exercise of authority inflates egos and twists logic . . . Theres real sorcery here Washington Post Promotional a Guardian Best Book of 2021 – Riveting Margaret Atwood Review Quote Praise for Atmospheric Disturbances: Playful yet profound, Murakami-esque yet original, analytical yet heartbreaking. Its an absolutely stunning and unforgettable debut Vendela Vida, author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name A powerful novel about love, longing, Doppler radar, and the true appreciation of a nice cookie with your tea. Atmospheric Disturbances is fantastic Nathan Englander, author of The Ministry of Special Cases A novel of Borgesian erudition, wit, and playfulness, though its obsessively pursued subject is love, the enraptured lover, and the mystery of the beloved, the intersection of loves fictions, realities, and pathologies ... The prose jumps with one astonishing observation, insight, and description after another. Atmospheric Disturbances delivers unforgettable joy Francisco Goldman, author of The Divine Husband Praise for Little Labours: Little Labours triumphantly breaks the silent embargo, demonstrating how these little bundles of joy can transcend cloying clich Promotional "Headline" a Guardian Best Book of 2021 - Riveting Margaret Atwood Feature a Guardian Best Book of 2021 - Riveting Margaret Atwood * This is the first novel from Rivka since her critically acclaimed debut ATMOSTPHERIC DISTURBANCES. That novel has been translated into over 20 languages and won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. It was also a finalist for the 2008 Governor Generals Award, one of Canadas most prestigious literary prizes. * Rivka was chosen as one of the New Yorker 20 under 40 alongside Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Joshua Ferris and Gary Shteyngart. * She has been compared to David Foster Wallace, Helen DeWitt, Haruki Murakami and Kafka. Competition: hamnet;the island of missing trees;matrix;manningtree witches;handmaids tale;circe;song of achilles;silence of the girls;where the crawdads sing;still life;sorrow and bliss. by;maggie ofarrell;lauren groff;madeline miller;pat barker;ak blakemore;margaret atwood;delia owens;meg mason;sarah winman Details ISBN0007548753 Author Rivka Galchen ISBN-10 0007548753 ISBN-13 9780007548750 Format Paperback Year 2022 Publication Date 2022-06-09 UK Release Date 2022-06-09 Pages 288 Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Eric H. Bernicker Birth 1974 Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology Position journalist Qualifications Ph.D. Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Alternative 9780007548743 DEWEY 813.6 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-02-06 NZ Release Date 2023-02-06 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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