Night School: A Reader for Grownups
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ISBN: 194095388X / Publisher: Open Letter, January 2019
A tongue-in-cheek textbook for how to live in our modern age.
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<p><b>A <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> Best Book in Translation of 2019</b></p><p>Zsófia Ban’s <i>Night School: A Reader for Adults</i> uses a textbook format to build an encyclopedia of life—subject by subject, from self-help to geography to chemistry to French. With subtle irony, Ban’s collection of “lectures” guides readers through the importance and uses of the power of <i>Nohoo</i> (or “know-how”), tells of the travels of young Flaubert to Egypt with his friend Maxime, and includes a missive from Laika the dog minutes before being blasted off into space, never to be seen again. A wildly clever book that makes our all-too-familiar world appear simultaneously foreign and untamed, and brings together lust, taboos, and the absurd in order to teach us the art of living.</p>
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