{"title":"Ulrike Almut Sandig","description":"\u003cp\u003eUlrike Almut Sandig’s works invite readers into vivid landscapes where the poetic and the mundane intertwine. Her writing, spanning both general fiction and poetic narratives, explores the delicate nuances of human experience with a strikingly original voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the lyrical introspection of \u003cem\u003eI Am a Field Full of Rapeseed\u003c\/em\u003e to the imaginative layers of \u003cem\u003eShine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other\u003c\/em\u003e, Sandig crafts stories that are at once intimate and expansive, fearless in their exploration of identity and connection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"monsters-like-us-by-ulrike-almut-sandig-9780857429834","title":"Monsters Like Us","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA novel of two young friends growing up on divergent paths in the last days of Communist East Germany.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is it like to be young and broken in a country that is on the brink of collapse? This is what acclaimed poet and sound artist Ulrike Almut Sandig shows us in her debut novel, through the story of old friends Ruth and Viktor in the last days of Communist East Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two central characters are inseparable since kindergarten, but they are forced to go their different ways to escape their difficult childhood: Ruth into music and the life of a professional musician; Viktor into violence and a neo-Nazi gang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMonsters Like Us\u003c\/em\u003e is a story of families, a story of abuse, a story about the search for redemption and the ways it takes shape over generations. 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This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. \u003ci\u003eThick of It\u003c\/i\u003e charts a journey through two hemispheres to 'the center of the world' and navigates a 'thicket' that is at once the world, the psyche, and language itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems explore an urgently urban reality, but that reality is interwoven with references to nightmares, the Bible, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes—all overlaid with a finely tuned longing for a disappearing world. The old names are forgotten, identities fall away; things disappear from the kitchen; everything is sliding away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePowerful themes emerge, but always mapped onto the local, the fractured individual in 'the thick of it' all. This is language at its most crafted and transformative, blisteringly contemporary, but with a kind of austerity, too. By turns comic, ironic, skeptical, nostalgic, these poems are also profoundly musical, exploiting multiple meanings and stretching syntax, so that the audience is constantly kept guessing, surprised by the next turn in the line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'The world evoked in \u003ci\u003eThick of It\u003c\/i\u003e is one that expands with every return visit. Translator Karen Leeder's enthusiasm for Sandig's creative and performative energy is palpable—it comes through the more one reads across this collection, moving with and against its currents.' - J. M. Schreiber, \u003ci\u003eroughghosts\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Borrowing from the Brothers Grimm, the collection explores the darker side of their fairy tales as a backdrop for very contemporary concerns: migration, war, the rise of the new right, ecological threat, information overload, and political apathy. At the same time, Sandig plays with the German meaning of the word “Grimm”: rage. That emotion permeates the collection as a reaction to the darkness in the collective German consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet the book is also animated by passionate, expansive empathy—and reminds us what it is to be human. 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