{"product_id":"eleven-sooty-dreams-9781948830263","title":"Eleven Sooty Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleven Sooty Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e could also have been called \u003ci\u003eMeeting at Bolcho Pride\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eFire Deep Down Below\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eStation in the Heart of the Flames\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eGranny Holgolde's Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eThe Liars' Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eEve of Battle After the Defeat\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eNever Without My Embers\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eGood-Bye to Death\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eFire Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eTerminal Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eGranny Holgolde's Childish Sickness\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eEven the Nursing Home Is in the Line of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Manuela Draeger's poetic 'post-exotic' novel, a group of young leftists trapped in a burning building after one year's Bolcho Pride parade plunge back into their childhood memories, trading them with each other as their lives are engulfed in flames. They remember Granny Holgolde's stories of the elephant Marta Ashkarot as she travels through the Bardo, to find her home and be reincarnated again and again. They remember the Soviet folk singer Lyudmila Zykina and her melancholic, simple songs of unspeakable beauty. They remember the half-human birds Granny Holgolde called strange cormorants, the ones who knew how to live in fire, secrecy, and death, and as the flames get higher they hope to become them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDraeger, a heteronym for the acclaimed French writer Antoine Volodine, and a librarian in a dystopic prison camp, gives post-exoticism an element of tenderness, and a sense of nostalgia for children's tales, that is far less visible in the other authors' works. \u003ci\u003eEleven Sooty Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book written for adults, a moving story of the constancy of brotherly, loving faithfulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948830263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140","brand":"Manuela Draeger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38213566070965,"sku":"9781948830263","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2f31e141-6a59-4715-bba7-4ba9e983cbff.jpg?v=1610441725","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/eleven-sooty-dreams-9781948830263","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}