KRISTEN ROUPENIAN

Un libro deslumbrante con doce cuentos sobre los roles de género y los misterios del deseo. Un debut arrollador. En diciembre de 2017 Kristen Roupenian publicó en el New Yorker el relato «Cat Person»

YOU KNOW YOU WANT THIS

Saps que ho vols és un recull de contes irreverent i imprescindible que gira al voltant del sexe, les cites, el desig, la culpa, el plaer, les relacions de poder entre els gèneres i altres qüestions

Un couple bien sous tous rapports héberge un ami qui tente déchapper à une relation toxique – pour mieux sombrer dans une autre que personne navait vue venir et qui le détruira. Une célibataire scept

*Includes the story Cat Personnow a major film*A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complexand often darkly funnyconnections between gender, sex, and power across genres.These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much. Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award Finalist and author of Her Body and Other PartiesKristen Roupenian isnt just an uncannily great writer, she also knows things about the human psycheThe world has made a lot more sense since reading this book. Miranda July, New York Times bestselling authorPreviously published as You Know You Want This, Cat Person and Other Stories brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sexuntil they cant have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for something mean; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her hearts desire: a nameless, naked man; and a self-proclaimed biter who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green-eyed, long-haired, pink-cheeked coworker. Spanning a range of genres and topicsfrom the mundane to the murderous and supernaturalthese are stories about sex and punishment, guilt and anger, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel, revolt and arouse, scare and delight in equal measure. And, as a collection, they point a finger at you, daring you to feel uncomfortableor worse, understoodas if to say, You want this, right? You know you want this.

Un libro deslumbrante con doce cuentos sobre los roles de género y los misterios del deseo. Un debut arrollador.En diciembre de 2017 Kristen Roupenian publicó en el New Yorker el relato «Cat Person».

NOW A MAJOR FILM Its a new literary genre... Supernatural horror meets bedroom politicsSunday TimesIf you enjoyed Cat Person, this is for you Evening StandardThese are stories of womens lives now. They also happen to be horror stories. In some, women endure the horror. In others, they inflict it.Here are women at work, at home, on dates, at the doctors, with their families and with their friends. Here are women grappling with desire, punishment, guilt and anger. These are stories to make you feel fascinated but repelled, scared but delighted, revolted but aroused.Previously published as You Know You Want This

She thought, brightly, This is the worst life decision I have ever made! And she marvelled at herself for a while, at the mystery of this person whod just done this bizarre, inexplicable thing.Margot meets Robert. They exchange numbers. They text, flirt and eventually have sex the type of sex you attempt to forget. How could one date go so wrong? Everything that takes place in Cat Person happens to countless people every day. But Cat Person is not an everyday story. In less than a week, Kristen Roupenians New Yorker debut became the most read and shared short story in their websites history. This is the bad date that went viral. This is the conversation were all having.This gift edition contains photographs by celebrated photographer Elinor Carucci, who was commissioned by the New Yorker to capture the image that accompanied Kristen Roupenians Cat Person when it appeared in the magazine.You Know You Want This, Kristen Roupenians debut collection, will be published in February 2019.