Sour Cherry
A darkly inventive reimagining of the fairytale Bluebeard, exploring power and toxic masculinity
$24.25
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
8 April 2025
Summary
Something terrible has happened.
In a mysterious apartment filled with ghosts, our unnamed narrator attempts to explain this to her child - how do I talk about this? she wonders.
The truth must become something beautiful. We must begin with a fairy tale.
And so she begins to construct a beautiful fairy tale for her child - one that begins with a strange baby boy whose nails grow too fast and whose skin smells of soil. As he grows from a boy into a man, a plague seems t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035416158 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035416158 |
| Author: | Natalia Theodoridou |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Wildfire |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 46mm x 232mm x 155mm |
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Reading Sour Cherry did not remind me of great writers. No. It was like I discovered a new one. ‘Masterwork’ is used so often when discussing a book, and so I’m not going to say it’s a masterwork: Sour Cherry is diamondwork, a treasure chest filled with objects from another world but made familiar to any reader. Only a standout, talented writer can pull this off. Sour Cherry is a remarkable novel, and one I will never forget. – MORGAN TALTY, author of Night of the Living Rez If you love Kelly Link, Angela Carter, and Carmen Maria Machado, then Natalia Theodoridou is your new favorite author. Sour Cherry is a hell of an impressive debut. Subversive, haunting, fantastical but all too real and relevant. – BENJAMIN PERCY, author of The Ninth Metal, Red Moon, and Thrill Me
About The Author
Natalia Theodoridou
Natalia Theodoridou is a queer and transmasculine writer whose stories have appeared in venues such as Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, Ninth Letter, and Strange Horizons, and have been translated into Italian, French, Greek, Estonian, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic. He won the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction and the 2022 Emerging Writer Award by Moniack Mhor & The Bridge Awards, and has been a finalist for the Nebula award multiple times. He holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from SOAS, University of London. Born in Greece, with roots in Georgia, Russia, and Turkey, he currently lives in the UK.
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