Filter House
A short story collection that moves through folklore, future societies, family histories, and embodied experience. Through a quiet sense of magic inside ordinary life, it illuminates race, gender, memory, and unstable belonging.
Work Information
Filter House
Filter House is a work by ニスィ・ショール associated with the アザーワイズ賞. Its publication data is identifiable, allowing readers to trace the award entry to a specific book edition.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Aqueduct Pr
- Published
- 2008-08-01
- Pages
- 276 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.34 x 1.83 x 20.96 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781933500195
- ISBN-10
- 1933500190
- Price
- 6316 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author
Presents stories exploring the themes of identity and belief, folklore, religious magic, family and the search for the self.
Reviews
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Filter House
Starts off with a princess and a dragon and takes us through space, through the trials of a daughter stolen into heaven and constantly at the whim of a petulant goddess and back to the Savannah. Beautiful writing, great stories that stay on your mind long after you've started a new one. I love Nisi Shawl's voice and pacing. Highly, highly recommend!
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A Delight to Read!
Very well written! I enjoyed reading her short stories very much. Her stories have intriguing plots and characters that I could connect to. Image rich and emotionally meaningful. I am really surprised that Nisi Shawl has not received more recognition from the outside, non-science fiction world!
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Three Stars
Some of the stories were far to abstract to follow closely.
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Wonderful stories
The stories are rich and varied, the pacing nearly perfect, and the characters new and familiar at the same time.
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So good! And so different from anything I've read before
So good! And so different from anything I've read before. Each story in this collection is like a new book but the Shawl's voice carries through it all beautifully.
Related Literary Awards
- Otherwise Award Edition 18 (2008) ・award