{"product_id":"sea-mothers-swallow-tongues-hardcover","title":"Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKim de l'Horizon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJamie Lee Searle\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the German Book Prize, the Swiss Book Prize, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Literature Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA prize-winning, boundary-breaking debut exploring family, class, history, and the true idea of the self.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA glorious, tender, unsparing exploration of language, family, history, class, self, and the human, \u003ci\u003eSea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues \u003c\/i\u003ebegins with the loss of memory. As their grandmother falls into dementia, the narrator begins to ask questions--to fill in the silences and the gaps. Childhood memories resurface, revealing a path into the past. The maternal line leads toward nature, witchcraft, freedom, and power. Could this be where the narrator belongs? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA quest toward understanding, a story of liberation--from generational trauma, gender constructs, class identity, the limits of language--this narrative invents its own forms, words, and bodies to conjure and cast out the very idea of the unspeakable. It searches for other kinds of knowledge and traditions, other ways of becoming, and reaches for wisdom beyond the human. In \u003ci\u003eSea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e, Kim de l'Horizon reimagines family narratives, abandoning the linear in favor of a fluid, incantatory, expansive search into who we are.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim de l'Horizon\u003c\/b\u003e is a Swiss novelist, performer, and playwright. Kim was born in 2666 on Gethen, a planet much freer than this one. Landing here on Earth was hard, as there is so much yet to change, so much at the edges of the horizon yet to be brought into the center, so much \"I\" yet to be fluidified. Kim studies witchcraft with Starhawk, as well as how sedentarization is the cause of our current mess. \u003ci\u003eSea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e is Kim's debut novel. Originally published in German as \u003ci\u003eBlutbuch\u003c\/i\u003e, it won the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Literature Prize, the German Book Prize, and the Swiss Book Prize. It has been translated into seventeen languages and adapted several times for the stage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamie Lee Searle \u003c\/b\u003eis a literary translator from German and Portuguese whose publications include \u003ci\u003eKalmann \u003c\/i\u003eby Joachim B. Schmidt and \u003ci\u003eTwelve Nights\u003c\/i\u003e by Urs Faes. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and a cofounder of the Emerging Translators Network.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 8.49 x 5.74 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51999606473005,"sku":"9780374612375","price":28.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/EC_BMcYIZ89780374612375.webp?v=1776563437","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/sea-mothers-swallow-tongues-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}