Blood Book by Jamie Lee Searle
The sensational international bestseller. A radical exploration of memory and identity by one of Europe's most prodigious contemporary writers.
Although the novel chronicles experiences that are relatively niche, the narrator's struggles transcend the specificity of what they are describingThis, ultimately, is what makes Blutbuch so powerful: it's not simply about the unique struggles of someone who is gender-fluid, but about what it means to be human in a gendered, classist, and sexist world -- Anna Katharina Schaffner * Times Literary Supplement *
A touching, literarily opulent, utterly fascinating book * Bayerischer Rundfunk *
Kim de l'Horizon has won the German Book Prize and everything about it is fantastic . . . it is a story about the search for the language of one's own identity, a story of becoming and being oneself * Die Welt *
A debut hard to be exceeded . . . A book of superpowers, of superheroines . . . This debut could move people like the great confessional texts by Édouard Louis, Annie Ernaux, Daniel Schreiber or Hanya Yanagihara did recently . . . With Blutbuch, Kim de l'Horizon has created something that belongs to the great promises of literature -- The Jury of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Literature Prize
In Kim de l'Horizon's novel Blutbuch, the non-binary protagonist searches for their own language with an enormously creative energy. What narrative exists for a body that defies conventional notions of gender? Every linguistic attempt displays an urgency and literary innovation that provoked and enthralled the jury -- The German Book Prize Jury
Such a deep story with a gorgeous language. I am completely enthralled * Frankfurter Rundschau *
Language becomes as fluid as bodies and identities: it sweeps you along in its current * Süddeutsche Zeitung *
An irrepressible literary talent * Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin *
Blutbuch surprises and amazes again and again through the mutability of language, the play with forms and text flows, and above all through the clever and witty narrative style * Ö1 Kultur Aktuell *
One can only marvel at the literary mastery that de l'Horizon unfolds * Die Zeit *
An important new voice for a new form of writing * Tages-Anzeiger *
Formally adventurous * New York Times *
Observing memory and the deconstruction of family, language, and the queer body, Blood Book is an atlas that takes on so many challenging points, with an omnipotence that never loses its vastness -- Misha Honcharenko, author of Trap Unfolds Me Greedily
A touching, literarily opulent, utterly fascinating book * Bayerischer Rundfunk *
Kim de l'Horizon has won the German Book Prize and everything about it is fantastic . . . it is a story about the search for the language of one's own identity, a story of becoming and being oneself * Die Welt *
A debut hard to be exceeded . . . A book of superpowers, of superheroines . . . This debut could move people like the great confessional texts by Édouard Louis, Annie Ernaux, Daniel Schreiber or Hanya Yanagihara did recently . . . With Blutbuch, Kim de l'Horizon has created something that belongs to the great promises of literature -- The Jury of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Literature Prize
In Kim de l'Horizon's novel Blutbuch, the non-binary protagonist searches for their own language with an enormously creative energy. What narrative exists for a body that defies conventional notions of gender? Every linguistic attempt displays an urgency and literary innovation that provoked and enthralled the jury -- The German Book Prize Jury
Such a deep story with a gorgeous language. I am completely enthralled * Frankfurter Rundschau *
Language becomes as fluid as bodies and identities: it sweeps you along in its current * Süddeutsche Zeitung *
An irrepressible literary talent * Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin *
Blutbuch surprises and amazes again and again through the mutability of language, the play with forms and text flows, and above all through the clever and witty narrative style * Ö1 Kultur Aktuell *
One can only marvel at the literary mastery that de l'Horizon unfolds * Die Zeit *
An important new voice for a new form of writing * Tages-Anzeiger *
Formally adventurous * New York Times *
Observing memory and the deconstruction of family, language, and the queer body, Blood Book is an atlas that takes on so many challenging points, with an omnipotence that never loses its vastness -- Misha Honcharenko, author of Trap Unfolds Me Greedily
Kim de l'Horizon is a novelist, performer, and playwright, born in 2666 on Gethen, a planet much freer than this one. Their debut novel, Blood Book, won the German Book Prize, the Swiss Book Prize and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Prize. It has been translated into seventeen languages and was an international bestseller.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781399731423 |
| ISBN 10 | 1399731424 |
| Title | Blood Book |
| Author | Jamie Lee Searle |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Sceptre |
| Year published | 2025-08-28 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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