We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm |
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| Author:
| Lafon, Lola |
| Translator:
| Ball, David
Ball, Nicole |
| Series title: | The French List Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-85742-189-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Publisher: | Seagull Books
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $27.50 |
Book Description:
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A wild novel navigating between fiction and reality. The main characters: two young women, the narrator, a dancer who no longer dances but whose body is still haunted by the movements of dance, and her soulmate Emile, who recovers from sudden death syndrome. They share the painful experience of having been raped. A third character, whom they call 'The Little Girl at the End of the Lane’, an odd girl obsessed with words--her own and of the writers she finds meaningful--will...
More DescriptionA wild novel navigating between fiction and reality. The main characters: two young women, the narrator, a dancer who no longer dances but whose body is still haunted by the movements of dance, and her soulmate Emile, who recovers from sudden death syndrome. They share the painful experience of having been raped. A third character, whom they call 'The Little Girl at the End of the Lane’, an odd girl obsessed with words--her own and of the writers she finds meaningful--will draw them out of their state of painful helplessness. The trio will take back the night, determined not to let 'the barbarian kings’ who rule society 'cut [their] nerves’.
We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm (a line from a poem by a nineteenth-century American anarchist woman) is about rape, dance, radical politics (particularly anarcho-feminism), repression (overt and subtle), revolt, madness . . . A revolutionary tale told in poetic prose, it is also a cautionary tale--as one critic said, its subject could be: 'On the danger of not going far enough, for birds of the feminine sex.’