The Singularity 1st Edition Balsam Karam Saskia Vogel Translation by Balsam Karam, Saskia Vogel (translation) 9781558611931, 1558611932 instant download after payment.

In an unnamed coastal city filled with refugees, the mother of a displaced family calls out her daughter's name as she wanders the cliffside road where the child once worked. The mother searches & searches until, spent from grief, she throws herself into the sea, leaving her other children behind. Bearing witness to the suicide is another woman-on a business trip, with a swollen belly that later gives birth to a stillborn baby. In the wake of her pain, the second woman remembers other losses-of a language, a country, an identity-when once, her family fled a distant war. 

Balsam Karam weaves between both narratives in this formally ambitious novel & offers a fresh approach to language & aesthetic as she decenters a white European gaze. Her English-language debut, The Singularity is a powerful exploration of loss, history, & memory-an experience akin to 'drinking directly from a flood of tears' (Aftonbladet).

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“Lyrical, devastating, & completely original, The Singularity is a work of extraordinary vision and heart. Balsam Karam’s writing is formally inventive & stylistically breathtaking,...” — Preti Taneja, author of Aftermath 

“Balsam Karam writes at the limits of narrative, limning the boundary of loss where ‘no space remains between bodies in the singularity.’ With a lucid intimacy, Karam braids a story of witness & motherhood that fractures from within only to rebuild memory & home on its own terms. The Singularity is a book of conviction, where those who have been made to disappear find light & keep their secrets too.” — Shazia Hafiz Ramji, author of Port of Being  

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Balsam Karam is a Kurdish author living in Sweden.

Saskia Vogel is a writer, screenwriter, & translator from Swedish & German into English.