As the two begin a volatile and ostensibly doomed long-distance relationship, Bran searches for meaning in her own surroundings-attending disastrous dance recitals, house-sitting for strangers, and writing scripts for student films. She spends her days tending plants, slogging through high school, and imagining what life could be if she had been born to a different family.Īnd then she meets Peter, a beautiful, troubled, and charming train wreck of a college student from the East Coast, who launches his teaching career by initiating her into the world of literature and aesthetics. After her mother joins a Buddhist colony, Bran is raised by her “common-law stepfather” on Bourdon Farms-a plant nursery that doubles as a cover for a biker gang. What fun.” - The New York Timesīran’s Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. A profound and singular story about a young woman searching for her place in the world, from one of America’s most original voices-the irresistible story of one teenager’s reckoning with society at large and her search for a personal utopia.It flows with a narrative spin only the singular Zink could pull off-including both authentic and fictional versions of characters from Shats's life and work such as the author herself.A fast-moving portrait of expat artists, authors, and academics on fellowships at the Villa Romana in Florence, European Story for Avner Shats centers on a trio of three indelible characters: an Israeli writer vaguely reminiscent of Shats, a German specialist in ancient lint, and a beautiful and fraudulent Russian performance artist.Demonstrating the hallmarks of Zink's unique talent, Private Novelist is an intimate look into this acclaimed novelist's early work that will please her coterie of admirers and further burnish her lustrous reputation. Now, this tongue-in-cheek homage is available to Nell's growing readership for the first time, accompanied by a second dazzling and imaginative work that breathes-at Shats's request-the perfumed air of the Old Europe and stars a figure very much like Shats.Sailing Towards the Sunset by Avner Shats is Zink's faux-translation of Shats's 1998 novel Lashut El Hashkia ("Sailing Towards the Sunset").
Unable to read his Hebrew, she was forced to start from scratch.
From the brilliant and incisive author of Mislaid-"a writer of extraordinary talent and range" (Jonathan Franzen) whose "capacity for inventions is immense" (BookForum)-comes a new collection of her earliest work: two wildly funny novellas (Sailing Towards the Sunset by Avner Shats and European Story for Avner Shats) available in one compact volume.Years ago, Nell Zink resolved to write a book for her friend, the Israeli novelist Avner Shats, that would mirror his remarkable style.
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