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Aleksandar Hemon / Kae Tempest
9780330513326 | HB | £18.99 | 02.02.23 | Picador
Only the past matters, because it is the only thing that outlives everything and everyone.
From Aleksandar Hemon, the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Lazarus Project and The Book of My Lives comes the epic story of a love so strong it defies war, revolution, separation and death.
Osman, a Muslim, and Pinto, a Jew, grow up in Sarajevo at the beginning of the twentieth century, coming of age as young men just in time to find themselves drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army as the Russian Revolution begins. Thus begins their continent-spanning story of a world in convulsion, of human bonds so strong, of love so absolute that it stretches from Sarajevo to Shanghai without snapping. This glorious novel is one we wish we could press into your hands in person, but please request a proof if you haven’t had one already! Here is Aleksandar to tell you a little bit more about his experience of writing this new novel:
‘The next book of mine to hit the shelves is The World and All That It Holds. It took me upwards of twelve years to finish it during which time much has changed around us . . . I do know that I’ve never loved my characters more, not least because they maintain their ability to love under the hardest of circumstances’
Aleksandar Hemon
Divisible by Itself and One is the new poetry collection from Britain’s foremost truth-teller, Kae Tempest. Kae masterfully steers a path between their more publicfacing performance work, and the contemplative voice that came to the fore in Running Upon The Wires.
Questions of integrity are addressed in direct, affecting terms: how can we be true to ourselves while under constant pressure to conform? Throughout the poems, ideas of form – of the body, gender, and in nature – resurface and resolve. Kae’s first collection of poems since coming out as non-binary, Divisible by Itself and One is an opportunity for one of Picador’s best-selling poets to reintroduce themselves to the world on their own terms.
PRAISE FOR RUNNING UPON THE WIRES: ‘Tempest uses words like a time traveller taking the reader into fragments of their own lives, successes and heartbreaks. Read and lose yourself in a total adventure’
Stylist
‘Dazzling wordsmithery’
Metro
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DIVISIBLE BY ITSELF AND ONE
