Trap Unfolds Me Greedily by Misha Honcharenko
‘Hot on the heels of his poetry debut, Skin of Nocturnal Apple, Misha Honcharenko returns with Trap Unfolds Me Greedily. The book is a floating, poetically-inclined anti-novel about the terror of living, the way the past holds us hostage, and the fear of death–or at least its abruptness. Dread suffuses the thoughts of our narrator as his strange and estranging syntax leaves us bewitched and unnerved. The book doesn’t let up, cedes no corner, and leaves a mark. What more can we ask for?’ — Nate Lippens, author of RIPCORD and My Dead Book
‘Misha Honcharenko’s new novel is a surreal adventure into language. There’s a visceral horror to the text, but the sentences have a wild abandon that brings to mind the queer freedom of the poems of John Ashbery. We are taken through a fairground mirrored world of bodies, childhood, the past, war, violence and moments of engulfing silence. Honcharenko’s voice and style are fresh and a pleasure to read. Given some of the personal circumstances that the book was written under, the fact that Trap Unfolds Me Greedily is here at all is nothing short of extraordinary. I urge you to get behind this project and support a great book from a brilliant young writer.’ — Thomas Moore, author of Your Dreams
‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily is tender, urgent, transcendent work. Like poetry, you don’t know where it’s going to go next, but every line promises it will be somewhere delicate and chaotic and true.’ — Lauren Elkin, author of Art Monsters
‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily is a novel—or something like a novel—that abandons the established laws of language in favour of creating, with the violent and elliptical strangeness of its sentences, a new kind of grammar: one whose effect on the reader is not merely intellectual, but psychically overwhelming. It is a book designed to be felt as much as read. War is hell; here is a record of its heat.’ — Philippa Snow, author of Which as You Know Means Violence
Paperback
170pages
LAUNCH of this novel is 1 Aug at Housmans Bookshop in London, from 7pm - 10pm with special guest Octavia Bright. Orders will be sent on 2 Aug.