Mona Awad

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny, a darkly funny novel about a theater professor suffering chronic pain, who in the process of staging a troubled production of Shakespeareâ??s most maligned play, suddenly and miraculously recovers.

'A beautiful, necessary book' ROXANE GAY'Luminous... Full of sharp insight and sly humour' KATHERINE HEINYLizzie doesn't like the way she looks. Though she dates guys online, she's afraid to send pictures: no-one wants a fat girl. So Lizzie starts to lose weight. With punishing drive she counts almonds consumed and pounds dropped, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband and her own reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In this darkly funny, deeply resonant novel, Mona Awad delivers a tender and moving depiction of a young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform.

Dazhe esli ves mir pokhozh na absurd, khoroshaja kniga ne dast vam sojti s uma. Ljudi rasskazyvajut istorii s samogo nachala vremen. Rasskazyvajut o tom, chto videli i o chem slyshali. Rasskazyvajut o tom, chto bylo i chto moglo by byt. Rasskazyvajut, chtoby otvlechsja, skorotat vremja ili perezhit neprostye vremena. Inogda takie istorii prevraschajutsja v khroniki, letopisi, pamjatniki otdelnym periodam i epokham. Tak pojavilis "Skazki tysjachi i odnoj nochi", "Kenterberijskie rasskazy" i "Dekameron" Bokkachcho. "Novyj Dekameron" - eto tozhe svoeobraznyj pamjatnik epokhe, kotoraja sovershenno tochno vojdet v istoriju. Redaktory The New York Times Magazine sobrali 29 novell, esse, skazok, krokhotnykh zarisovok i razvernutykh rassuzhdenij. V nikh samye izvestnye sovremennye pisateli popytalis zapechatlet i osmyslit sobytija, okhvativshie kazhdyj ugolok mira. V sbornik voshli novelly Margaret Etvud, Kolma Tojbina, Lejly Slimani, Rejchel Kushner, Etgara Kereta, Devida Mitchella, Mony Avad i mnogikh drugikh.

From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as "genius," comes a "wild, and exhilarating" (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare's most maligned play will remedy all that ails her--but at what cost? Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now, she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised and cost her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. That's when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda's past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what's coming to them, and the invisible doubted pain that's kept her from the spotlight is made known. With prose Margaret Atwood has described as "no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged...genius," Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All's Well is a "fabulous novel" (Mary Karr) about a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.

From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as "genius," comes a "wild, and exhilarating" (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare's most maligned play will remedy all that ails her--but at what cost? Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now, she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised and cost her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. That's when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda's past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what's coming to them, and the invisible doubted pain that's kept her from the spotlight is made known. With prose Margaret Atwood has described as "no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged...genius," Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All's Well is a "fabulous novel" (Mary Karr) about a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.

Luchshaja kniga-2019 po versii TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature i The New York Public Library. Samanta - studentka pretentsioznogo Universiteta Uorrena. Ona predpochitaet svoe temnoe voobrazhenie obschestvu bolshinstva ljudej i preziraet odnokursnits - bogatykh i nevynosimo kukolnykh devushek, nazyvajuschikh drug druga Zajkami. Vse menjaetsja, kogda ona poluchaet ot nikh priglashenie na vecherinku i neobjasnimym obrazom ne mozhet otkazatsja. Samanta vse glubzhe pogruzhaetsja v sladkij i zloveschij mir Zaek, i vot uzhe ikh tajny - ee tajny. "Zajka" - zavorazhivajuschij i derzkij roman o neravenstve i odinochestve, druzhbe i zhelanii, fantasticheskoj i uzhasnoj sile voobrazhenija, o samoj prirode tvorchestva. "Koktejl v dukhe "Istvikskikh vedm", "Drjannykh devchonok" i knigi "Vljapalas!" Kelli Link. I kipit on v adskom kotle filologicheskogo fakulteta! Ni shtampov, ni zanudstva. Okh, Zajka, ty prosto genij!". Margaret Etvud, avtor knigi "Rasskaz sluzhanki"Perevodchik: Chajkovskaja MarijaRedaktor: Makarova E.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Soon to be a major motion picture "Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled O Bunny you are sooo genius " --Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." --Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times "Awad is a stone-cold genius." --Ann Bauer, The Washington PostThe Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library

THE TIKTOK SENSATION The darkly funny, spellbinding trip of a novel that EVERYONE is talking about 'No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled. O Bunny you are sooo genius!' MARGARET ATWOOD We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously. Bunny. Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at Warren University. In fact, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort – a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny'. But then the Bunnies issue her with an invitation and Samantha finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door, across the threshold, and down their rabbit hole. Blending sharp satire with fairytale horror, Bunny provides a hilarious look at the dark side of female friendship from one of fiction's most original voices. 'The Secret History meets Jennifer's Body. Brilliant, sharp, weird... I loved it and I couldn't put it down.' KRISTEN ROUPENIAN 'Made me nod and cackle in terrified recognition.' LENA DUNHAM 'Hilarious, hallucinogenic freakery.' DAILY MAIL 'Cerebral and complusively readable.' VANITY FAIR

A hilarious, deeply resonant and at times shocking novel about the harmful beauty standards imposed on women. A must-read for fans of Lena Dunham, Roxane Gay and Caitlin Moran. Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks - even though her best friend Mel says she's the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she's afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose weight. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In her brilliant, hilarious and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad simultaneously skewers the body image-obsessed culture that tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance, and delivers a tender and moving depiction of a lovably difficult young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform. As caustically funny as it is heart-breaking, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girlintroduces a vital new voice in fiction.