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Item specifics

Condition
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ISBN
9781947793422
EAN
9781947793422
Book Title
Divide Me by Zero
Publisher
Tin House Books, LLC
Item Length
8.8 in
Publication Year
2019
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.3 in
Author
Lara Vapnyar
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Psychological, Contemporary Women, Romance / Contemporary
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Item Width
5.9 in
Number of Pages
360 Pages

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As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, approaching forty, she finds this wisdom tested: she has lost the love of her life, she is in the middle of a divorce, and has just found out that her mother is dying. Half-mad with grief, Katya turns to the unfinished notes for her mother's last textbook, hoping to find guidance in mathematical concepts. With humor, intelligence, and unfailing honesty, Katya traces back her life's journey: her childhood in Soviet Russia, her parents' great love, the death of her father, her mother's career as a renowned mathematician, and their immigration to the United States. She is, by turns, an adrift newlywed, an ESL teacher in an office occupied by witches and mediums, a restless wife, an accomplished writer, a flailing mother of two, a grieving daughter, and, all the while, a woman in love haunted by a question: how to parse the wild, unfathomable passion she feels through the cool logic of mathematics? Award-winning author Lara Vapnyar delivers an unabashedly frank and darkly comic tale of coming-of-age in middle age. Divide Me by Zero is almost unclassifiable--a stylistically original, genre-defying mix of classic Russian novel, American self-help book, Soviet math textbook, sly writing manual, and, at its center, an intense romance that captures the most common misfortune of all: falling in love.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Tin House Books, LLC
ISBN-10
194779342x
ISBN-13
9781947793422
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038399616

Product Key Features

Book Title
Divide Me by Zero
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Psychological, Contemporary Women, Romance / Contemporary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Lara Vapnyar
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Reviews
Divide Me by Zero plunges into dark comedic territory with savage grace ... A novel that treats the emotional territory of adulthood with devastating aplomb., It's almost impossible to put the book down without devouring it in one sitting. A poignant, vivid, and frequently funny novel., Lara Vapnyar is one of my very favorite writers: funny and true and with the rare talent to assemble one ideally telling scene after another. She is also one of the few writers I would recommend to all my friends, with all their varying tastes, because the charisma of her storytelling is unmissable., Vapnyar's latest is the fascinating story of a brilliant, emotionally volatile protagonist whose wicked humor appears in frequent asides made directly to the reader, along with a smattering of whimsical graphics, and Nina's handwritten notes for her unrealized textbook. Smart, complicated, irresistible., Among the many pleasures of the novel is Vapnyar's portrayal of the intellectual connection Katya has with her children, which is disarmingly lovely. . . . This is a frank, amusing, and melancholy novel., Woven together with math concepts and plenty of raw feelings, this is a love story for those who are forever engaged in the pursuit of happiness., Everything I love about Lara Vapnyar's vision and voice--her blazing intelligence, skewering wit and exuberant prose--is contained in this wild and witty novel. I don't know how her work manages to feel absolutely timely and perfectly timeless all at once. Divide Me By Zero is an inventive page-turner that explores familial and romantic love, passion, the inevitability of grief, and the ways we manage all of those things in compassionate and wonderfully surprising ways. I was so sorry when I finished and I'll think about this book and its characters for a very long time., Divide Me by Zero is, despite its honesty about the difficulties of a life fully lived, a celebration: a sensitively told, honest account of the messiness and beauty of loving with abandon and living in a manner that defies easy categorization, numerical or otherwise., Woven together with math concepts and plenty of raw feelings, this is a love story for those who are forever engaged in the pursuit of happiness. (Starred Review), Divide Me by Zero is, despite its honestly about the difficulties of a life fully lived, is a celebration: a sensitively told, honest account of the messiness and beauty of loving with abandon and living in a manner that defies easy categorization, numerical or otherwise., Divide Me by Zero is a keen, penetrating novel about the quest for love--romantic and otherwise--that drives one woman's life. Lara Vapnyar brilliantly evokes (by way of, yes, math) a span of decades, a pair of continents, and a plethora of uneasy emotions. This book is so unflinchingly honest about the human condition that I couldn't put it down., In her superb and poignant new novel, Lara Vapnyar writes about love and other difficulties with the same passion, wit, and probing intelligence to be found in all her writing. Among its many treasures, Divide Me By Zero contains fascinating explorations of the fraught, tangled nature of both romantic and family relationships, and some of the most affecting scenes of bereavement I have ever read., Divide Me by Zero plunges into dark comedic territory with savage grace. . . . A novel that treats the emotional territory of adulthood with devastating aplomb., Among the many pleasures of the novel is Vapnyar's portrayal of the intellectual connection Katya has with her children, which is disarmingly lovely. ... This is a frank, amusing, and melancholy novel.
Lccn
2019-013808
Target Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ps3622.A68d58 2019
Copyright Date
2019

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