Falling is Like Flying

Manon Uphoff author Sam Garrett translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pushkin Press

Published:1st Jul '21

£12.99

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This is a story she never wanted to tell, but in the end she had no choice. When her older sister dies at the age of sixty-nine, it brings back a past the author thought she had left behind. Incensed, she delves back into her childhood, recreating the abusive world that she grew up in, ruled over by her tyrannical father, The Minotaur. In a narrative by turns shockingly dark and strangely beautiful, she retraces her path through the phantasmagorical labyrinth, bringing a tale of silent trauma to a triumphant, raucous conclusion. Falling is Like Flying is an extraordinary autobiographical story of abuse and resilience, a literary triumph that reminds us what language is capable of.

'Uphoff does not mince her words: humans are like animals eternally tending to theirwounds. Her incredibly sensitive, almost alchemical style contains echoes of MargaretAtwood, Maggie Nelson and Sylvia Plath' - Humo

'Devastates by showing that what is most painful contains great beauty as well. Falling isLike Flying is like a richly coloured stained-glass window, a starry sky of stylisticinvention.' - NRC Handelsblad

'Manon Uphoff has succeeded in finding the language for a story that is almost impossibleto tell' - De Volkskrant

ISBN: 9781782277033

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192 pages