Author: Hagar Peeters File Type: epub Winner of the Fintro Prize for Literature Kirkus Fall 2018 Previews Poetic prose full of magical realism, biographical details and psychological insight. Opzij Malva, a precocious eight-year-old ghost, is running amok in the afterlife with a cadre of other lost children. She searches for her father, the famous poet Pablo Neruda, and wants him to know the details of her small, but not insignificant life. Why did he abandon her, and her mother Maria? And what became of him? Who was he before he had a child? And what did she, his only child, mean to him? From her omniscient perspective, the once disabled and mute Malva now travels through the world and through time, seeing her father as a young boy, later as he courted her mother in Dutch-Indonesia, and how his political passions drove his life. She scrutinizes every moment, seeking to understand and resolve her loss. With the wisdom of a child, she picks up her fathers pen and conducts literary mischief, courting the great poets of our time and bringing her chosen ghostwriter, Hagar Peeters, news of her own father, who was a journalist in Chile during the coup and Nerudas mysterious death. Startling, profound, and graceful, Peeters brings to readers the world Malva could not describe in life, an extraordinary story of love that spans earth and heaven. There are many parallels between the mute Malva and the language- and literature-loving Peeters in this father-daughter book full of yearning for recognition. * De Limburger * Cleverly unravels the myth surrounding Neruda without knocking him off his pedestal. An original biographical novel written, as befits a poet, in sparkling language. * JAN* Hagar Peeters (b. 1972), nominee for Dutch Poet Laureate, has won numerous prizes and published several volumes of poetry Enough Poems Written About Love Today (1999), Suitcases of Sea Air (2003), Runner of Light (2008) and Maturity (2011). She spent ten years researching the life of Malva in The Netherlands and Chile. She lives in Amsterdam with her son. **Review Intoxicating language saturated with warm hues thats allowed to rustle like a veiled wedding dress, and you have a lavish novel by a gifted poet. *De Morgen* This phantasmagoric novel by the celebrated Dutch poet Peeters (Maturity, 2011, etc.) is a strange experience, poetic in word and verse [...]Malvas voice is intriguing, having evolved beyond revenge or anger into a deeper acceptance. An evocative portrait of a lost girl demanding agency even in the face of death itself. *Kirkus Reviews* Malvais a hypnotically poetic novel, in Peeterss original Dutch as much as in the translation by Vivien Glass. The afterlife has granted the disabled eight-year-old Malva Marina a precociously eloquent kind of wisdom and a wicked sense of humor.Mute and powerless during her brief earthly existence, shes now chatty and happily omniscient. She barely seems to hold a grudge against her absent, famous father. But shes also ruthless when it comes to his contradictions. *Public Books* Peeters cleverly unravels the myth surrounding Neruda without knocking him off his pedestal. An original biographical novel. Written, as befits a poet, in sparkling language. *JAN* There are many parallels between the mute Malva and the language-and literature-loving Peeters in this father-daughter book full of yearning for recognition. *De Limburger* Peeters impresses with poetic prose full of magical realism, biographical details and psychological insight. *Opzij* The book is as lush with speculative literary history as it is with lyrical prose,picking its way through the sticky webs of family dynamics and revolutionary politics with a focus on neglected figures. [...] As Malva reclaims her fathers pen to tell her story of abandonment, the novel probes the question of how to make sense of Nerudas political outspokenness in light of his silence on the subject of his own mute daughter,revisiting his poetry to find where Malva might fit among all the omissions. Malvais as much a triumphant meditation on disability as it is a fiercely revisionist biography. [...] Peeters misses no chance to show her poetic strength. Grant Schatzman, *World Literature Today* An incandescent and evocative debut. *Trouw* It only takes half a page to realize that the poet Hagar Peeters is also a novelist of exceptional ability. NRC Handelsblad, 4-stars Marvelous surrealist novel (...), strongly reminiscent of Allende and Marquez (...), a fascinating patchwork of fiction and history. *De Telegraaf* About the Author Hagar Peeters (b. 1972) has published several volumes of poetry Enough Poems Written About Love Today (1999), Suitcases of Sea Air (2003), Runner of Light (2008) and Maturity (2011). She has won awards including the J.C. Bloem Poetry Prize, the Jo Peters Poetry Prize and the Poetry Day Prize, and was shortlisted for the position of Dutch Poet Laureate. Malva, her debut novel, was awarded the 2016 Fintro Prize for Literature (formerly the Golden Book Owl).

Author: Raphael Sassower File Type: pdf Envisioning a different mode of economic relations requires a rethinking of the classical frames of references we commonly take for granted. The implicit assumptions that we carry into critical debates are the stumbling blocks for finding useful solutions to age-old economic problems. And these impediments constrict our political imagination. This book asks what are these frames of references? How many of them are worthy of retaining, while others might be discarded? And what new framings should be adopted in order to bring about a less crisis-prone and morally acceptable mode of human interaction? Each chapter interrogates a different frame of reference, including culturally-embedded concepts of human nature, scarcity and abundance, markets, and the human condition. Examining their historical anchoring and the ways in which they have become confining for the realities of the postmodern world in which we currently live, it is shown that they have become so familiar that they are assumed rather than critically examined in most discussions of political economy.**ReviewSassowers study is excitingly elementary it revitalizes the familiar basics of economics. The ideas of Adam Smith and of Karl Marx are still important and fresh, Sassower says, due to their firm root in the philosophies of their times. These he replaces with a new, critical philosophy, while retaining the basic quest of economic theory abolishing hunger and creating abundance. (Joseph Agassi, Emeritus Professor, Tel-Aviv University and York University, Toronto) Sassower weaves together strands of Marxism, Popperianism and postmodernism to offer an original, practical and hopeful approach to how wecitizens, thinkers and studentsmight enact collective prosperity. Such prosperity comes from our desire to improve the human condition. With singular clarity and directness, Sassower argues convincingly for new commitments philosophical, social and politicalin service to our collective flourishing. (James Collier, Associate Professor of Science and Technology, Virginia Tech) Raphael Sassower systematically analyzes the modern economic system not just the systems that provide the mechanic function of capitalism but the very metric by which success and failure are measured. By interrogating the notion of Prosperity Sassower identifies and begins to fill a gap that emerges from employing established units of measure in an evolving economic context. (Michael Sawyer, Assistant Professor, Colorado College) About the Author Raphael Sassower is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is author of The Price of Public Intellectuals (2014), Digital Exposure Postmodern Postcapitalism (2013), Solo Postmodern Explorations (2011) and Postcapitalism Moving Beyond Ideology in Economic Crises (2009).