How We Desire
$29.59
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2018
Summary
A genre-busting, thoughtful exploration of sexuality and identity by one of Germany’s most admired writers.
What if, instead of discovering our sexuality only once, during puberty, we discover it again later - and then again, after that? What if our sexuality reinvents itself every time our desire shifts, every time the object of our desire changes? What if the nature of our desire is constantly changing - growing deeper, lighter, wilder, more reckless, more tender, more selfish, more…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925603613 |
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| ISBN-10: | 192560361X |
| Author: | Carolin Emcke |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 344g |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
‘Delicate and vulnerable, angry, passionate, clever and thoughtful. An amazing work.’ * Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung *
‘Her words tremble with fury…A compelling conversation, urging readers to rethink the borderlands of the erotic.’ * Australian *
‘Huge intellect and tremendous energy.’ * Radio NZ *
‘Hypnotic.’ * Sydney Morning Herald *
‘A beautiful account of discovering and rediscovering one’s identity.’ * Otago Daily Times *
Carolin Emcke
Carolin Emcke was born in 1967. She studied philosophy, politics, and history in London, Frankfurt, and at Harvard. From 1998 to 2013, she reported from war and crisis zones, including Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Gaza, and Haiti. She has authored a number of books, and in 2016, she received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. How We Desire is the first book by Carolin Emcke to be translated into English.
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