Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues

Description: "Originally published in German in 2022 by DuMont Buchverlag, Germany, as Blutbuch"--Copyright page.

Brief description: Jamie Lee Searle translates literature from the German and the Portuguese. Her publications include Twelve Nights, by Urs Faes; Kalmann, by Joachim B. Schmidt; and a cotranslation of Angela Merkel's memoir, Freedom. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and a cofounder of the Emerging Translators Network.

Review Quotes:

"A meteorite."
--Télérama

"One can only marvel at the literary mastery."
--Die Zeit

"An ambitious queer coming of-age novel about family, language, and writing . . . A crucible of absolute stylistic liberty."
--El Diario

"Multilayered, eloquent, powerful . . . [Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues] explodes the boundaries of the genre."
--Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"[Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues] 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, which in the end arranges all the seemingly contradictory building blocks into one big, impressive And."
--Ö1 Kultur aktuell

"Powerful . . . [A novel] about what it means to be human in a gendered, classist and sexist world."
--The Times Literary Supplement

"Wildly inventive."
--Le Monde