Little Nothing

Little Nothing

A Huffington Post Book Club Suggestion â€¢ An O: The Oprah Magazine Fall Pick â€¢ A LitHub Book You Should Read This September â€¢ One ofÂ The Millions' "Most Anticipated" for 2016

â€œMarisa Silverâ€™s beguiling new novel Little Nothing is a powerful exploration of the relationship between our changeable bodies and our just as malleable identitiesâ€¦Silverâ€™s storytelling skills are finely matched to her themesâ€¦meditative passages bloom with life.â€
â€”Matt Bell, The New York Times Book Review
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A stunning, provocative new novel fromÂ New York TimesÂ bestselling author Marisa Silver,Â Little NothingÂ is the story of a girl, scorned for her physical deformity, whose passion and salvation lie in her otherworldly ability to transform herself and the world around her.

In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents. Her arrival, fervently anticipated and conceived in part by gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptions, stuns her parents and brings outrage and scorn from her community. Pavla has been born a dwarf, beautiful in face, but as the years pass, she grows no farther than the edge of her crib. When her parents turn to the treatments of a local charlatan, his terrifying cure opens the floodgates of persecution for Pavla. Little Nothing unfolds across a lifetime of unimaginable, magical transformation in and out of human form, as an outcast girl becomes a hunted woman whoseÂ ultimate survival depends on the most startling transfiguration of them all.Â Woven throughout is the journey of Danilo, the young man entranced by Pavla, obsessed only with protecting her. Part allegory about the shifting nature of being, part subversive fairy tale of love in all its uncanny guises, Little Nothing spans the beginning of a new century, the disintegration of ancient superstitions, and the adoption of industry and invention. With a cast of remarkable characters, a wholly original story, and extraordinary, page-turning prose, Marisa Silver delivers a novel of sheer electricity.
Country USA
Manufacturer Blue Rider Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 0399167927_Good
ReleaseDate 2016-09-13
EANs 9780399167928

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Blue Rider Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	0399167927_Good
ReleaseDate	2016-09-13
EANs	9780399167928

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