{"product_id":"1000-coils-of-fear-by-olivia-wenzel","title":"1000 Coils of Fear by Olivia Wenzel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I have more privilege than any person in my family. And I'm still screwed.' From award-winning author Olivia Wenzel comes a captivating and unsettling literary debut about race, politics, feminism, motherhood, nationality and enduring love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young woman attends a play about the Berlin Wall coming down and is the only Black person in the audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is sitting with her boyfriend by a bathing lake and four neo-Nazis show up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn New York, she witnesses Trump's election victory in a strange hotel room and later awakes to panicked messages from friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging in a witty question and answer with herself, the narrator looks at our rapidly changing times and tells the story of her family: her mother, who was a punk in East Germany and never had the freedom she dreamed of and her absent Angolan father. But in the background of everything is the memory of her twin brother, who died when they were nineteen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeart-rending, opinionated and wry, Olivia Wenzel's remarkable debut novel is a clear-sighted investigation into origins and belonging, the roles society wants to force us into and why we need to resist them, and the freedoms and fears that being the odd one out brings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'So\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eexuberant, inventive, brainy, sensitive and hilarious\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ethat it's like a pyrotechnic flare illuminating the whole woman, past and present, radiant, unique, a voice and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003ea novel to take with us into the future\u003c\/b\u003e.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFRANCISCO GOLDMAN, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonkey Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eBold and exceptional\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e. . . Her\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eimpressive writing, born of a brilliant mind\u003c\/b\u003e, surprises - stylistically, and by its frankness and associations . . . I rode in the passenger seat, beside the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003ebeauty and strangeness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e1000 Coils of Fear.\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLYNNE TILLMAN, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMen and Apparitions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMothercare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'An\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eaudacious and disturbing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003enovel.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMICHELLE DE KRETSER, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eScary Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'An\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eexciting, confident\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edebut.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eImpressive, relentless, tender\u003c\/b\u003e.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eBook Information\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003ePublished: 12\/07\/2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eGenre: Fiction, German Literature, LGBT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003ePages: 277\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eDimensions: 234 x 154mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Olivia Wenzel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52251790016822,"sku":"9780349702018","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/2811\/3956\/files\/Book_83_aeecedee-1b52-4942-a60d-17521dc8aa10.jpg?v=1750471964","url":"https:\/\/puzzlesrusmore.au\/products\/1000-coils-of-fear-by-olivia-wenzel","provider":"booksrusandmore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}