Details

ISBN-10: 1941920829
ISBN-13: 9781941920824
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publish Date: 10/15/2019
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 4.90" W, 0.50" H

Honey, I Killed the Cats

Translator: Benjamin Paloff

Paperback

Price: $15.95

Overview

An incomparably hilarious satire of modern consumer culture, with everything from personality to religion commodified, like Virginie Despentes meets Blade Runner.

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Reviews

"Maslowska here describes a terrifying funhouse abounding with toxic friendships, ominous takes on consumerism, and grotesque moments of violence and general discomfort...The tone is broadly satirical throughout, but it's the variety with fangs – sometimes literally." – Tobias Carroll, Mystery Tribune

"Dorota Maslowska is a mistress of the startling metaphor and her heroine is certainly not the stuff of chick lit. She appears in dreams (her own and those of her friends and neighbours) pyjama bottoms dripping with blood - yes honey, she has killed the cats. And she hardly need a hero to come and save her from drowning, does she? If this gloriously strange book sounds like your sort of thing, give Benjamin Paloff's translation a go..." – Kate Sotejeff-Wilson

"Dorota Maslowska's Honey, I Killed the Cats doesn't read like a novel, but rather a sequence of tabs on an internet browser, each one a minor digression into a deeper chaos. Written in 2012 by one of Poland's leading young authors, Benjamin Paloff's lively translation is distinctly 2019, as if constructed solely from a digital-era dictionary." – Matt Janney, The Calvert Journal

"Paloff is able to preserve Maslowska's energy and surprising wordplay in this translation, and the prose brings life to the setting in a way that energizes the story..."– Ambrose Mary Gallagher, Michigan Quarterly Review

"Maslowska's latest is a sucrose-loaded simulacrum for the American monoculture, recklessly scrambling barbed sarcasm with irreverent sight gags to stupendous effect. A knives-out dissection of aesthetic vulgarity that refuses to be calmed, corralled, or otherwise contained. Honey, I Killed the Cats is delightfully demented fun." – Justin Walls, Powell's Books at Cedar Hill Crossing

"A wild, technicolor send up of culture and consumerism." – Caitlin Luce Baker, Island Books

"A grossly all-too-accurate satire of American consumer culture and those frantically swiping their plastic (in hopes of some kind of meaning) inside of it. Hilarious and biting. A scream." – Traci Thiebaud, Brazos Bookstore

"Slim and ferocious, Maslowska's novel is a wild trip from beginning to end." Publisher's Weekly

"So absurdly extended–and so deranged in its detail–that it's genuinely funny." Kirkus Reviews

"She is the hope of Polish literature." – Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

"Paloff deserves to be commended. His translation is as transparent as possible, literal without being wooden, lively yet not artificially so. Maslowska's linguistic vigor communicates itself to English-language readers so readily that we are caught up in the quick current of her prose before we even know what the book is about." Reading in Translation, Magdalena Kay

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Details

ISBN-10: 1941920829
ISBN-13: 9781941920824
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publish Date: 10/15/2019
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 4.90" W, 0.50" H
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