{"id":307,"date":"2024-02-13T00:27:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gabija.metamark-dev.com\/cold-east\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T00:58:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:58:46","slug":"cold-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gabija.metamark-dev.com\/en\/cold-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold East"},"content":{"rendered":"
fiction \u2013 a new voice that disrupted Lithuanian literature!<\/strong><\/div>\n

On the morning of his 29th birthday, Lithuanian Stasys \u0160altoka wakes up next to a woman he doesn\u2019t know, in his own bed, in New York, realizing that his days look good only through Instagram filters. Ferocious anxiety lurks under the photogenic everyday surface, and the question WHY? keeps poking him in the back \u2013 what the fuck should he do with his life? Stasys decides to change lanes and moves to Southeast Asia. New friends, an occasional wan tan mee, phad thai or mashed potatoes, all drowning in whiskey and sarcasm, leads him to making documentaries about the third world. Yet there is still just silence inside him.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cold East is the second novel by Gabija Gru\u0161ait\u0117, telling the story of today through an inner transformation lens of thirty-year-olds, through the search of profound happiness or meaning while dancing around the surfaces of life, and through human ties.<\/p>\n

Cold East is exceptional. Beautifully written and easy to read, it’s a book about you and me \u2013 post-Soviet hipsters. It\u2019s an intense exploration of values and the meaning of life in a modern Instagram society. I absolutely could not put it down.
\n\u2013 R\u016bta Pulkauninkait\u0117-Macik\u0117, CEO of hotel<\/p>\n

PACAIGabija Gru\u0161ait\u0117’s novel exploded like a bomb on the Lithuanian literary scene, dragging us willy-nilly into the 21st century.
\n\u2013 Violeta Kelertas, literary cricticNew Literature from Europe festival, New York City, 2018<\/p>\n

Searching for the meaning of life hasn\u2019t been dismissed yet, it\u2019s still the eternal quest. And this quest is exactly what the author undertakes. It is shielded by irony, sarcasm, and Instagram filters, but still addressed.
\n\u2013 Marius Burokas, Vilnius Review, poet and translator<\/p>\n

AWARDS
\n\u200d<\/strong>
\n>\u00a0<\/strong>Jurga Ivanauskait\u0117 Literary Prize (Lithuania, 2018)
\n\u200d><\/strong>\u00a0Penang Monthly Book Prize (Malaysia, 2018)<\/p>\n

SHORTLISTED FOR
\n\u200d<\/strong>
\n><\/strong>\u00a0European Union Prize for Literature (2019)
\n\u200d><\/strong>\u00a0Book of the Year in Lithuania (2018)<\/p>\n

INTERVIU APIE ROMAN\u0104<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kipras \u0160umskas<\/strong>\u00a0has translated movies, magazines, several books, and far too many legal documents. In his spare time, he teaches Creative Thinking to teenagers and kids in informal education projects.<\/p>\n

METRIKA<\/strong><\/p>\n

translated from Lithuanian\u00a0<\/strong>by Kipras \u0160umskas
\noriginal text editor<\/strong>\u00a0\u016ala Ambrasait\u0117
\nlanguage editor<\/strong>\u00a0Rosalind Chua
\ndesign<\/strong>\u00a0Zigmantas Butautis<\/p>\n

ISNB 978-609-8198-14-0
\n256 pages, 126x196x20 mm
\nsoftcover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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