{"product_id":"1000-coils-of-fear-9780349702018","title":"1000 Coils of Fear","description":"\u003cb\u003e'I have more privilege than any person in my family. And I'm still screwed.' From award-winning author Olivia Wenzel comes a captivating and unsettling literary debut about race, politics, feminism, motherhood, nationality and enduring love.\u003c\/b\u003eA young woman attends a play about the Berlin Wall coming down and is the only Black person in the audience.She is sitting with her boyfriend by a bathing lake and four neo-Nazis show up.In New York, she witnesses Trump's election victory in a strange hotel room and later awakes to panicked messages from friends.Engaging in a witty question and answer with herself, the narrator looks at our rapidly changing times and tells the story of her family: her mother, who was a punk in East Germany and never had the freedom she dreamed of and her absent Angolan father. But in the background of everything is the memory of her twin brother, who died when they were nineteen.\u003cb\u003eEmotional and funny, Olivia Wenzel writes about loneliness and finding joy in life within the roles that society assigns you. \u003ci\u003e1000 Coils of Fear\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly original novel both powerfully poetic and full of surprises.\u003c\/b\u003e'So e\u003cb\u003exuberant, inventive, brainy, sensitive and hilarious\u003c\/b\u003e that it's like a pyrotechnic flare illuminating the whole woman, past and present, radiant, unique, a voice and \u003cb\u003ea novel to take with us into the future\u003c\/b\u003e.' \u003cb\u003eFRANCISCO GOLDMAN, author of \u003ci\u003eMonkey Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e '\u003cb\u003eBold and exceptional\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Her \u003cb\u003eimpressive writing, born of a brilliant mind\u003c\/b\u003e, surprises - stylistically, and by its frankness and associations . . . I rode in the passenger seat, beside the \u003cb\u003ebeauty and strangeness\u003c\/b\u003e of \u003ci\u003e1000 Coils of Fear.\u003c\/i\u003e' \u003cb\u003eLYNNE TILLMAN, author of \u003ci\u003eMen and Apparitions\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMothercare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 'An \u003cb\u003eaudacious and disturbing\u003c\/b\u003e novel.' \u003cb\u003eMICHELLE DE KRETSER, author of \u003ci\u003eScary Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 'An \u003cb\u003eexciting, confident\u003c\/b\u003e debut.' \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003cb\u003eImpressive, relentless, tender\u003c\/b\u003e.' \u003ci\u003eFaz\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Olivia Wenzel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50951937655126,"sku":"9780349702018","price":17.66,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9780349702018.jpg?v=1753988798","url":"https:\/\/www.englishbook.pt\/products\/1000-coils-of-fear-9780349702018","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}