Tokyo-based writer and artist Erika Kobayashi @flowertv talks with @friezeofficial about the pleasure of choosing and giving gifts for White Day in the latest video from a series in collaboration with @jomalonelondon. Erika’s new collection SUNRISE is coming out in July in the US.
Link in bio for info about SUNRISE, and more from Frieze and Jo Malone and their beautiful video series. #Frieze #whiteday
In the past two years we have published authors from over twenty different countries. This #InternationalWomensDay we're excited to highlight some of the women from around the world whose work will expand your thinking.
Whose gifts are you searching for this holiday season? Astra House books make the best presents. http://bit.ly/3Ejz0EQ
This holiday season, give the ones you love (and yourself) the gift of new stories and fresh perspectives with these Astra House titles. http://bit.ly/3Ejz0EQ
A collection of stories about human connections and the myriad ways in which they might be severed, Adam Soto's CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP speaks directly to a generation of readers who are intimately acquainted with absence and loss. In the words of Gabino Iglesias, "let them haunt you."
Music by Frank Leonardo and Adam Soto.
CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP is a available now wherever books are sold.
The paperback edition of THIS WEIGHTLESS WORLD has landed.
Traversing the Soviet Union, late 2000s America, and the vast expanse of the cosmos, @adamjsoto's novel explores the lives of people awaiting a great paradigm shift. A dazzling deconstruction of a science fiction trope, THIS WEIGHTLESS WORLD looks to the past for a vision of the future. 🛸
Braiding prose poetry with bachata lyrics and the gritty humor of Canary dialect, @andreaabreulopez’s DOGS OF SUMMER (tr. @sanschaises)is a story of exquisite yearning, a brutal picture of girlhood and a love song written for the vital community it portrays.
DOGS OF SUMMER is available now wherever books are sold. 🐕☀️
Happy Publication Day! 🔥 Erika Kobayashi's TRINITY, TRINITY, TRINITY (tr. Brian Bergstrom), a literary thriller about the effects of nuclear power on the mind, body, and recorded history of three generations of Japanese women, is available now for North American readers.
In Erika's first complete work of fiction to be translated into English, Japan is preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics—nine years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster. An unnamed narrator wakes up in a cold, sterile room, unable to recall her past. Across the country, the elderly begin to hear voices emanating from black stones, compelling them to behave in strange and unpredictable ways. The voices are a symptom of a disease called “Trinity.”
As details about the disease come to light, we encounter a thread of linked histories—Prometheuss stealing fire from the gods, the discovery of radiation, the nuclear arms race, the subsequent birth of nuclear energy, and the disaster in Fukushima. The thread linking these events begins to unravel in the lead-up to a terrorist attack at the Japan National Olympic Stadium. Link below to pick up a copy of TRINITY, TRINITY, TRINITY at your favorite bookstore. bit.ly/Trinity-Trinity-Trinity-AH 🔥
PREORDER SWEEPSTAKES! 🌸 DOGS OF SUMMER by Andrea Abreu (tr. Julia Sanches) is a debut novel about BFFs, girlhood, and coming of age during Y2K. As an ode to first love and other first times, we’ve partnered with Brooklyn-based artist Daisy Chains to create limited-edition, handmade friendship bracelets. Enter to win an exclusive Astra House x Daisy Chains bracelet for you and your BFF by preordering DOGS OF SUMMER (out 8/2) from your favorite local bookstore or shop of choice and uploading the receipt at the link below between now and July 14. No purchase necessary. U.S. residents only 18 and over.
https://astrapublishinghouse.com/dogs-of-summer-preorder-offer/
"Dazzling... the tone is hopeful, resilient and accepting. Marked by the diversity of experiences shared, the wealth of intimate details, and the total lack of sensationalism, this is an astonishing report on the quest for sexual liberation."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Touching, joyful, defiant -- and honest."
—The Economist, a best book of the year
Celebrate African women’s unique journeys toward sexual pleasure and liberation in this empowering, subversive collection of intimate stories.
