Best Restless Books products in the Fiction category
On this page you'll find a ranking of the best Restless Books products in this category. To give you a quick overview, we've already ranked the most important information about the products for you.
1. Restless Books Piglia:The Way Out
2. Restless Books Stavans:Popol Vuh
"Popol Vuh: A Retelling" by Ilan Stavans is an impressive and urgent prose retelling of the Maya creation myth. This reinterpretation is beautifully illustrated by the talented Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios and introduced by the renowned author and environmentalist Homero Aridjis. The "Popol Vuh" is the archetypal creation story of Latin America, originating from the oral tradition of the Maya and transcribed in the 16th century by members of the K'iche' nobility in Guatemala. This narrative offers a deep insight into the way of life of the Maya before the destruction brought by colonization, including their ethics, views on death and the afterlife, as well as their devotion to nature. The story describes the creation of the world through a series of experiments involving wooden figures, demigods, and ultimately humans, addressing the challenges faced by the Maya, including the legend of a king who became a spirit to guide his people in times of need.
3. Restless Books Land of Love and Ruins
“Oddný Eir is an authentic author, philosopher, and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now and has bridged the gap between rural Iceland and Western philosophy. A true pioneer!” —Björk
The winner of the EU Prize for Literature, "Land of Love and Ruins" introduces a daring new voice in international fiction: Oddný Eir. In the wake of Iceland’s financial crisis, a young author, recently separated and navigating the uncertain terrain of a new relationship, finds herself questioning the foundations of our love and family lives, our bonds to country and the earth. Stirred by a dream about an old Viking woman on a pilgrimage, she sets out on a quest to the ruins of the homes of her ancestors, where they tried to live in harmony with nature and each other. Her guiding questions are as essential as their answers are elusive: How do we create a home for love? How can we nourish personal space while sustaining intimacy and desire with a partner? How can we go, not back, but forward to nature?
Drawn both to her archaeologist mother and her ornithologist lover, she explores alternate forms that those relationships might take. Her search takes her all over Iceland and abroad to Paris, Strasbourg, Basel, and the Lake District, home of famous Romantic siblings Dorothy and William Wordsworth. Written in the form of a diary that spans from small details to big questions and weaves elements of philosophy, history, archaeology, ecology, eroticism, and literature into a beautifully patterned whole, Oddný Eir invents a new, intimate language between writer and reader in this enchanting book about being human in the modern world.
4. Restless Books The Body Papers
