A Beautiful Lack of Consequence
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cornerstone
Published:20th Mar '25
Should be back in stock very soon
'Tender, humorous and moving’COSMOPOLITAN
'Visceral, wild, and so beautifully necessary.' SALMA EL-WARDANY, author of THESE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS
'Radojevic’s stories and fragments are so sharp-edged they could draw blood. Fierce, funny and angry.' CATHERINE MAYER, author TIME/LIFE
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Across thirty striking tales, Monika Radojevic weaves together the surreal with the everyday, confronting the experiences of contemporary womanhood with a tender ferocity shot through with humour.
A woman walks into a bar, and nobody notices. A newly married couple are punished for their childlessness with an unsettling nocturnal invasion. A girl trades her vocal cords for a chance at freedom. A door-to-door salesperson offers the antidote to women’s fear – but it comes at a high price.
Bubbling with an urgent rage that occasionally tips over into vengeance, Radojevic deftly charts the moments that make a life: from the warmth of first love to the recognition of anger, and the possibilities that take shape as we find or lose our ability to speak. A Beautiful Lack of Consequence explores the ways in which the world bends and breaks women with the pressure it puts on them – and what happens when those women snap back.
Moving and irreverent, dark and otherworldly, A Beautiful Lack of Consequence is a blazing debut collection from the winner of the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize.
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'Thoughtful, introspective and darkly funny' READER REVIEW
'So beautiful and raw' READER REVIEW
'Biting . . . a must read!' READER REVIEW
Visceral, wild, and so beautifully necessary. -- Salma El-Wardany, author of These Impossible Things
Radojevic’s stories and fragments are so sharp-edged they could draw blood. Fierce, funny and angry. -- Catherine Mayer, author of Time/Life
Tender, humorous and moving * Cosmopolitan *
Fuelled by rage, these fiery, staunchly women-centred stories are frighteningly real, but given a surreal slant that makes them all the more memorable * Daily Mail *
Radojevic’s writing is lyrical and imaginative, and is often written in the second person, pulling the reader into the stories, which – in some of the heavier-themed pieces – makes for breathless reading . . . Read it and be angry * Mslexia *
Praise for Monika Radjoevic * - *
Courageous, arresting * Independent *
Powerful * Stylist *
Radojevic's interrogation of the status quo . . . is not just interesting, it is agitating. * Bad Form *
Radojevic writes with an uncompromising fierceness, provocation and dedication to the physical body which acts as her most authentic, intuitive medium of expression. She offers with this collection a vital contribution to literature at a time when women's voices urgently need to be heard. * HUCK *
ISBN: 9781529918717
Dimensions: 223mm x 143mm x 27mm
Weight: 394g
288 pages