The Torturer's Wife
- ISBN-10
- 0872864669
- ISBN-13
- 9780872864665
- Category
- Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
- Pages
- 261
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-12
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Author
- Thomas Glave
Description
Nominated for the 2010 Stonewall Book Award, the oldest book award given for outstanding achievement in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Literature
Author of the acclaimed story collection Whose Song?, award-winning Thomas Glave is known for his stylistic brio and courageous explorations into the heavily mined territories of race and sexuality. Here he expands and deepens his lyrical experimentation in stories that focus—explicitly and allegorically—on the horrors of dictatorships, war, anti-gay violence, the weight of traumatized memory, secret fetishes, erotic longing, desire and intimacy.
THOMAS GLAVE is an O. Henry award-winning author and was named a Village Voice Writer on the Verge in 2001. He is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, Words to Our Now:Imagination and Dissent (winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction), and editor of Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles. He is the 2008-2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Praise for The Torturer's Wife:
"The Torturer's Wife is one of the most interesting American books I [have] read in the last years. It is not the usual publisher's product, but a literary text that incites the reader to become a conscious and seduced re-reader."
—Juan Goytisolo, author of State of Siege and A Cock-Eyed Comedy
Praise for Thomas Glave:
"Glave's disruption of form is a powerful metaphor for sexual, racial and geopolitical disjunctions. Glave is a gifted stylist . . . blessed with ambition, his own voice and an impressive willingness to dissect how individuals actually think and behave."
—New York Times Book Review
"Thomas Glave walks the path of such greats in American literature as Richard Wright and James Baldwin . . . He cuts to the bone of what it means to be black in America, white in America, gay in America, and human in the world at large."
—Gloria Naylor, author of The Women of Brewster Place
"What a writer! What a book! Glave is a brilliant writer of startlingly fresh prose . . . His stories are intricate tapestries of life rendered through a triumphant act of the imagination."
—Clarence Major, author of One Flesh
Watch a fan's tribute to Thomas Glave here
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Torturer in the Mirror
By Ramsey Clark, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, Haifa ZanganaThe Torturer in the Mirror shows us how when one of us tortures, we are all implicated in the crime.
-
The Shadow of the Torturer: Urth: Book of the New Sun Book 1
By Gene WolfeCouple this with an original and unique, highly imaginative and complex worldbuilding and the high praise is warranted' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'This is a picaresque fantasy with a difference, for our hero Severian is no ...
-
The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories
By John BiguenetThis brilliant debut collection of stories by O. Henry Award winner John Biguenet is as notable for the rigor of its intellect as for the sweep of its imagination.
-
Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh
By Thomas GlaveWhat unifies these identities and these essays is the ferocity of Glave's voice, his sentences that can feel like living, untamed things.
-
The Novel of Human Rights
By James DawesJohn Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971), 27. 46. David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (Ann Arbor: University ...
-
Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles
By Thomas GlaveShe told us about plants that healed and about plants that drove you crazy , and none of it made much sense to us children ... Grenada , and when the wind blew right smell the limetrees of Carriacou , spice island off the coast .
-
The Inquisitor's Wife: A Novel of Renaissance Spain
By Jeanne KalogridisWhat was the inspiration for The Inquisitor's Wife and its titular heroine? I'd researched the Inquisition in 13005 France for my novel The Burning Times, and I'd always wanted to know more about the famous Spanish Inquisition (beyond ...
-
Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance
By Sarah J. Townsend, Diana TaylorCertainly they expected in our mountains, in our valleys, that you would hurl your challenge, your war cry, against the Uxab, ... Were we not born here, with our children, our sons, where the black clouds, the white clouds, come down, ...
-
Women Unsilenced: Our Refusal to Let Torturer-Traffickers Win
By Jeanne Sarson, Linda MacDonaldThis book discloses their “underground” caring work and offers “kitchen table” research and insights, using women’s storytelling on multiple platforms to educate readers on the unimaginable layers of perpetrators’ modus operandi ...
-
Requiem for a Woman's Soul: A Novel
By Omar Rivabella... the torturers ordered.Then he began applying thepicana tothewoman's vagina ... wife is suffering because of you, you guerillasonof a bitch!” Agrey-haired ... wife's body lay still, shouting: “Murderers!” He was silencedby a gunshot to the ...