Aimee Bender

Le jour de ses 9 ans, Rose mord avec délice dans son gâteau d'anniversaire. S'ensuit une incroyable révélation : elle ressent précisément le mal-être éprouvé par sa mère en le préparant. Car, dans sa

A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with hair the color of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard; a woman plays out a fantasy with her husband and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life; an ugly woman marries an ogre and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children; and two sisters travel deep into Malaysia, where one learns the art of mending tigers who have been ripped to shreds. In each of The Color Master s fifteen remarkable stories, Aimee Bender holds a funhouse mirror up to reality, proving, once again, that she is one of the most intelligent and imaginative writers of our time.

______________________________________LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD[A] compact surrealist memory box of a novel .

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE - A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDThe Butterfly Lampshade is an unflinching, empathetic portrayal of a childhood touched by mental illness. As always, Aimee Benders respect for the child and the child within translates into wisdom and magic on the page. Jing-Jing Lee, author of How We DisappearedOn the night her mother is taken to a mental health hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is mesmerised by a lamp adorned with butterflies as she falls asleep. When she wakes, Francie sees a dead butterfly matching the ones on the lamp floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before anyone sees. Twenty-years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment and two other incidents that have haunted her life. But how close are her memories to reality, and will she ever be free of them?

Le jour de ses neuf ans, Rose Edelstein mord avec délice dans le gâteau au citron préparé pour loccasion. Sensuit une incroyable révélation : elle ressent précisément lémotion éprouvée par sa mère, a

Francie a huit ans quand la dépression de sa mère, Elaine, vient bouleverser à jamais son existence. Recueillie par son oncle et sa tante, Francie grandit entourée d’affection auprès de sa cousine Vi

The New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, a Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with a wonderful collection of enchanting, strange and magical stories.In this collection, Benders unique talents sparkle brilliantly in stories about people searching for connection through love, sex and family while navigating the often painful realities of their lives. A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband in The Red Ribbon and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre in The Devouring and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children. Tiger Mending follows two sisters who travel deep into Malaysia where one learns the art of mending tigers who have been ripped to shreds, and in the title story, ''The Color Master'', a company of tailors endeavour to capture the colours of the sun, moon and sky.Evocative, funny, sad and beautifully written, The Color Master cements Aimee Benders reputation as one of the most imaginative and exciting writers of our time.

Francie a huit ans quand la dépression de sa mère, Elaine, vient bouleverser à jamais son existence. Recueillie par son oncle et sa tante, Francie grandit entourée d’affection auprès de sa cousine Vi

Le jour de ses neuf ans, Rose Edelstein mord avec délice dans le gâteau au citron préparé pour loccasion. Sensuit une incroyable révélation : elle ressent précisément lémotion éprouvée par sa mère, a

A Vintage Shorts Short Story Month Selection The old man and the old woman always dreamed the same dreams. Everyone in Celias town knows the couple, married sixty years, with wrinkled skin down to their wristsbut one summer, while Celia takes care of her father, refusing to join her mother on the next leg of their concentration camp museum tour, the old man and the old woman start prophesying, and the town is forever changed. Dreaming in Polish invites the reader to look at the world through Aimee Benders unique funhouse vision, a world twisted on its axis yet as gloriously tangible as real life. A selection from her debut collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, hailed by the New York Times and Los Angeles Times as one of the best books of the year. An eBook short.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE - A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDThe Butterfly Lampshade is an unflinching, empathetic portrayal of a childhood touched by mental illness. As always, Aimee Benders respect for the child and the child within translates into wisdom and magic on the page. Jing-Jing Lee, author of How We DisappearedOn the night her mother is taken to a mental health hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is mesmerised by a lamp adorned with butterflies as she falls asleep. When she wakes, Francie sees a dead butterfly matching the ones on the lamp floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before anyone sees. Twenty-years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment and two other incidents that have haunted her life. But how close are her memories to reality, and will she ever be free of them?