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The boy who stole Attila’s Horse by Iván Repila. Cover art with rough sketches, this is one of my favourite jobs , and one of my favourite books so dark and disturbing, heartbreaking. I was gripped ! I was only asked to illustrate the cover but would dearly love love love to illustrate the whole book one day. #ivanrepila #pushkinpress @pushkin_press

Our story begins with our mothers'- for when she is conceived, one half of us is already present in her. Metaphorically, yes? But let's come down to the bare bones. A girl is born with all the eggs she will ever have- we are a part of our mothers long before we become an idea, a desire, a wish. I've avoided picking this book for the longest time; I am known to cry copiously, especially at emotionally charged words. And an ode to a dead mother who ends her life at 51 years was certainly going to have me weep buckets. It didn't. Handke writes about his mother seven weeks after her death-in parts to make sense of this loss & to capture the entirety of 'her'. So he begins- she as a child, as a young woman learning the vocabulary of this world, a wife, a mother, an essential but ignored limb of the society, a matron who finds herself (better late than never) to only realise just how late that is & then… I didn't know there were controversies around Handke. This work, though, is just a testimony to love felt and experienced. This pithy German book, mere 78 pages, is held down by the beauty of the prose. Grief has words and more than wrenching your heart out- they wipe the muck off our vision. If sadness were words- A Sorrow Beyond Dreams would be those. And what it really says is… It's already too late, it's already too less. Go tell your mother you love her. #peterhandke #asorrowbeyonddreams #germanbooks #pushkinpress #nobelprizeliterature #austrianliterature #translatedliterature #translatedbooks #delhibookstagrammer #indianreaders #bookstagramindia #addictedtobooks #coffeeandbooks #bookishthoughts #neverwithoutabook #nonfictionreads #nevernotreading #januaryreads #2023readingchallenge #indianbookstagrammer #mumbaibookstagram (at India) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn8b4EzLM6q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

On a recent trip to NY, I stopped by McNally Jackson, an independent bookstore in NoLita, & couldn't resist picking up these beauties. I've been meaning to read some Leonora Carrington as I find her a very interesting person. The other two were cover & blurb buys. The covers drew me in & the blurbs on the back made me buy. * #funaekbooks #funaekreads #bookstagram #instabooks #instaread #pushkinpress #dorothyproject #leonoracarrington #barbaracomyns #indiepublishing #pugsandbooks

“Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.” Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl. • Last week was the birthday of one of my favourite writers Stefan Zweig. Here’s a little stack of his books to celebrate 🎉🎂🍾 • “I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it.” Stefan Zweig, Chess Story. #STEFANZWEIG #readtheworld #stairwaytoclassics #readoutsidethebox @pushkin_press #pushkinpress #

Travelling with Stefan Zweig. Brilliant book from @pushkin_press #stefanzweig #theworldofyesterday #pushkinpress #bookstagram

Major #bookswoon people! #PushkinPress have sent book 1&2 from #CorneliaFunke's #RecklessTrilogy to go with my ARC 😍

Andrés Neuman's award winning novel 'Traveler of the Century' is now available @waywordandwise #newbies #curatedbooks #pushkinpress (at Wayword & Wise)