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Cargando... Walking Practice (edición 2023)por Dolki Min (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I know this book explores queerness and gender issues, but as an autistic person I maaaassively related. The feeling of constantly having to control and monitor your body, it’s positioning, movements and what it does, breaking, moulding yourself and folding yourself in ways that feel unnatural and only satisfactory to others. Having to rehearse and fit in to tightly restricted roles that feel completely arbitrary and nonsensical, and pretending those rules make any objective sense. Feeling unsafe and completely unable to reveal your true self in relationships…. hating yourself and feeling like an ugly alien outsider. It all hit very hard. It was extremely gross and also hilarious in parts, and very brutal in exposing what ultimately is human cruelty. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"The mere act of walking on the Earth is a challenge for our most unusual protagonist -- a shapeshifting, gender-bending alien. After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, they find themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet, where gravity is a disabling force. They'll need to practice walking in the Earth's atmosphere to survive. And what better way to practice than hunt delicious humans? They chooses their prey, shifts their gender, appearance, and conduct based on the prey's sexual preference, only to attack at the pivotal moment of their encounter. They has found ways to adapt to this new way of life, from a backpack full of torturous tools and post-murder cleanup equipment, to a common dating app that's helped them sniff out and target the juiciest of humans. But everything goes horribly wrong one night when the alien fails to take one woman's life on the spot. Sent on an ill-fated chase all over the city, they begin to consider the psychological and physical tolls their experiences on Earth have taken on them. The alien must re-access their bloody means of survival to understand why humans also fight to live. But their hunger is unsatiable, and the alien once again zeroes in on a new prey, not knowing what awaits them... Min's haunting debut novel is part psychological thriller, part searing critique of the social structures that marginalize the queer, disabled, and nonconformist. Walking Practice uncovers humanity in who we consider to be alien, and how alienation can shape the human experience"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)895.73Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Korean Korean fictionClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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It touches on a lot- body dysmorphia/gender dysphoria, gender conformance & ostracization from society, gaybashing, unbearable loneliness, trying to find love through dating app hook-ups, hatred toward society for viewing you with disgust but desperately wanting that acceptance. All of this is told through the PoV of an incomprehensible alien who cannot hold human shape for long before falling apart into what humans treat as a monstrosity, struggles to make sense of human behavior but still seeks out a facsimile of connection in their myriad lovers/prey. There's just so much.
It's all interspersed with a lot of visceral, physical language, metaphors, blunt and direct discussions of desires and self-disgust for the body but yearning for the closeness of other bodies (though as much as food as for intimacy. But i guess intimacy is a form of devouring)
The translator included an afterward at the end of the novel explaining their process, too; the Korean writing was super experimental to showcase the protag's repeat disintegration, & I love how she worked out depicting the same moments in English. It's really god! ( )