Blutbuch

Die Erzählfigur in ¿Blutbuch¿ identifiziert sich weder als Mann noch als Frau. Aufgewachsen in einem Schweizer Vorort, lebt sie nun in Zürich, ist den engen Strukturen der Herkunft entkommen und fühlt sich im nonbinären Körper und in der eigenen Sexualität wohl. Doch dann erkrankt die Großmutter an Demenz, und das Ich beginnt, sich mit der Vergangenheit auseinanderzusetzen: Warum sind da nur bruchstückhafte Erinnerungen an die eigene Kindheit? Wieso vermag sich die Großmutter kaum von ihrer früh verstorbenen Schwester abzugrenzen? Und was geschah mit der Großtante, die als junge Frau verschwand? Die Erzählfigur stemmt sich gegen die Schweigekultur der Mütter und forscht nach der nicht tradierten weiblichen Blutslinie.Dieser Roman ist ein stilistisch und formal einzigartiger Befreiungsakt von den Dingen, die wir ungefragt weitertragen: Geschlechter, Traumata, Klassenzugehörigkeiten. Kim de l'Horizon macht sich auf die Suche nach anderen Arten von Wissen und Überlieferung, Erzählen und Ichwerdung, unterspült dabei die linearen Formen der Familienerzählung und nähert sich einer flüssigen und strömenden Art des Schreibens, die nicht festlegt, sondern öffnet.

Winner of the German Book Prize, the Swiss Book Prize, and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Literature Prize<BR><BR>A prizewinning, boundary-breaking debut exploring family, class, history, and the true idea of the self.<BR><BR>A glorious, tender, unsparing exploration of language, family, history, class, self, and the human, Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues begins with the loss of memory. As their grandmother falls into dementia, the narrator begins to ask questions-to fill in the silences and the gaps. Childhood memories resurface, revealing a path into the past. The maternal line leads toward nature, witchcraft, freedom, and power. Could this be where the narrator belongs?<BR><BR>A quest toward understanding, a story of liberation-from generational trauma, gender constructs, class identity, the limits of language-this narrative invents its own forms, words, and bodies to conjure and cast out the very idea of the unspeakable. It searches for other kinds of knowledge and traditions, other ways of becoming, and reaches for wisdom beyond the human. In Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues, Kim de l'Horizon reimagines family narratives, abandoning the linear in favor of a fluid, incantatory, expansive search into who we are.

WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE, THE SWISS BOOK PRIZE AND THE JÜRGEN PONTO LITERATURE PRIZE<BR><BR>'Powerful'<BR>Times Literary Supplement<BR><BR>'Formally adventurous'<BR>New York Times <BR><BR>'An exquisite inquiry into what it means to be an individual in a body, a family, a society, with all the attendant misery, humour, joy and enduring mystery'<BR>Krystelle Bamford, author of Idle Grounds<BR><BR>As their grandmother slides into dementia, an unnamed narrator begins to ask questions - to fill in the gaps, to resist the silence that shrouds their family. Childhood memories resurface, revealing a path into the past, winding back through generations. This matrilineal line leads toward nature, witchcraft, freedom. Could this be where they belong?<BR><BR>What follows is an astounding quest for liberation - from generational trauma, class identity, the limits of language. It's a search for other forms of knowledge and traditions, other ways of becoming. Bold and expansive, Blood Book is an unforgettable reckoning with the past, and a mesmerising exploration of who we are.<BR><BR>'Everything about it is fantastic'<BR>Die Welt<BR><BR>'One can only marvel'<BR>Die Zeit<BR><BR>'An important new voice for a new form of writing'<BR>Tages-Anzeiger<BR><BR>Published in the US as Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues

'It's daring, free, contradictory and relentless'<BR>Nelio Biedermann, Service95<BR>'So powerful'<BR>Times Literary Supplement<BR><BR>'Formally adventurous'<BR>New York Times<BR><BR>WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE, THE SWISS BOOK PRIZE AND THE JÜRGEN PONTO LITERATURE PRIZE<BR><BR>As their grandmother slides into dementia, an unnamed narrator begins to question the silence that shrouds their family. Childhood memories resurface, revealing a path into the past - one that winds back generations, leading towards nature, witchcraft, freedom. Could this be where they belong?<BR><BR>Bold and expansive, Blood Book is an astounding quest for liberation, and a mesmerising exploration of who we are.<BR><BR>Published in the US as Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues