{"product_id":"after-9789390742226","title":"After","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Selby Wynn Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Pan Macmillan India\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Pan Macmillan India\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A poetic patchwork of fragments of literary history that together take shape as an intergenerational tale of the Lesbian family. An ancestry eruditely, playfully recovered' BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAfter Sappho\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e“The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf determines: “I want to make life fuller and fuller.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWriting in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives. A luminous meditation on creativity, education, and identity, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAfter Sappho\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e announces a writer as ingenious as the trailblazers of our past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“What a wonder. This book is splendid: Impish, irate, deep, courageous … Brava!” Lucy Ellmann, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDucks, Newburyport\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan India","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465136263319,"sku":"9789390742226","price":350.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789390742226.webp?v=1769307367","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/after-9789390742226","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}