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Voice of the Fish

Lars Horn

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English
Footnote Press Ltd
04 April 2023
Lars Horn's Voice of the Fish, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, is akaleidoscopic, hallucinatory memoir that explores the trans experience throughmeditations upon aquatic life and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels inRussia and a debilitating injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak, read andwrite. In their adept hands, these poignant, allusive shards take shape as a unifiedwhole: short vignettes about fish, reliquaries and antiquities serve as interludesbetween - and subtle reflections upon - longer memories of their life, knittingtogether a sinuous, wave-like form that flows across the book.

Horn swims through a range of subjects; across marine history, theology, questionsof the body and gender, sexuality, transmasculinity and illness. From their childhoodmodelling for their mother's art installations - immersed in a bath with dead squid;encased in a full-body plaster cast - to their travels before they w ere out as trans,these beguiling fragments are linked by a desire to interrogate the physical, and to identify the current beneath. Horn re-examines presumptions about the unchangingnature of the body, privileging instead ways of seeing and being that resistbinaries, ways that falter, fracture, mutate. Sensuous and immersive, Voice of theFish is unique: a masterful and moving achievement.
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Imprint:   Footnote Press Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 217mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   250g
ISBN:   9781804440179
ISBN 10:   1804440175
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Lars Horn is a writer and translator working in literary and experimental non-fiction.Their first book, Voice of the Fish, won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and was anAmerican Booksellers Association Indies Introduce Selection. The recipient of the TinHouse Without Borders Residency and a Sewanee Writers' Conference scholarship,Horn's writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Granta, the VirginiaQuarterly Review, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Initially specialising inPhenomenology and Visual Arts scholarship, they hold MAs from the University ofEdinburgh, the École normale supérieure, Paris, and Concordia University, Montreal.They split their time between Miami, Colorado, and the UK with their wife, the writer Jaquira Díaz

Reviews for Voice of the Fish

This book left me stunned. Breathtaking in its scope and generosity . . . a luminous and compassionate reckoning with borders and boundaries. And all of this written in achingly beautiful prose that catches the light in even the darkest of moments. We are in the midst of a rare and transcendent talent, and how lucky we are that Lars Horn exists. -- Maaza Mengiste * author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Shadow King * Rapturous . . . [Horn] is the mystic's David Attenborough. * New York Times Book Review * Ocean-deep and brimming with beauty, Voice of the Fish is a wondrous book, formed with the expansiveness and strong currents of a vast body of water. I didn't want to leave until I'd seen every glowing image. -- Elissa Washuta * author of White Magic * A sonorous meditation on living a fluid life. * Publishers Weekly * Horn's story sparkles with emotional intensity. * Kirkus Reviews *


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