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The Anthropologists
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Description
A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
"The Anthropologists is mesmerizing; I felt I read it in a single breath." -Garth Greenwell
"Savas is an author who simply, and astoundingly, knows." -Bryan Washington
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family?
As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an anthropologist observing local customs. “Forget about daily life,” chides her grandmother on the phone. “We named you for a whole continent and you're filming a park.”
Back in their home countries parents age, grandparents get sick, nieces and nephews grow up-all just slightly out of reach. But Asya and Manu's new world is growing, too, they hope. As they open the horizons of their lives, what and whom will they hold onto, and what will they need to release?
Unfolding over a series of apartment viewings, late-night conversations, last rounds of drinks and lazy breakfasts, The Anthropologists is a soulful examination of homebuilding and modern love, written with Aysegül Savas' distinctive elegance, warmth, and humor
Product details
| Published | Jul 09 2024 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 192 |
| ISBN | 9781639733071 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Utterly enchanting.
The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
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A novel that takes as its subject the texture, routines, and rituals of a particular lifestyle-itinerant and youthful, or at least untethered by children-and serves as sort of a field guide to its participants . . . Savas approaches her novel with a keen awareness of the reality through which it crafts and filters its make-believe.
The Atlantic
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An erudite and elegant meditation on modern life and modern love . . . Don't be deceived by Savas's cool, matter-of-fact tone–beneath it lie layers of wisdom, delicacy and subtlety.
The Guardian
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The peculiar habits and folkways of the creative class are on study in Savas's latest . . . Asya and Manu are on their own, left to figure things out from day to day, and, in that figuring-out process, life takes its form. Passing time, the book suggests, is all that there is.
The Wall Street Journal
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In this subtle and resonant novel, Savas charts the way we sometimes choose-and sometimes drift into-the path to our future.
The New Yorker
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Insightful . . . With subtlety and sincerity, Savas encourages readers to be anthropologists in their own lives, in hopes they'll discover for themselves what it truly means to live.
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