Ebook {Epub PDF} Tender by Sofia Samatar

 · Praise for Tender: "Most of the 20 sumptuous tales in Sofia Samatar’s collection Tender take place on Earth – although not always the Earth we might recognize. Sprawling in subject from the supernatural power of names to the loneliness of a half-robot woman, Tender redefines the emotional power and literary heft that speculative fiction can convey. Where Samatar’s acclaimed fantasy Brand: Small Beer Press. Samatar also notes that she had "been moving [toward autobiography] already" in some of the stories from Tender, but writing the fiction in her book, Monster Portraits, helped her to "actually start to see [her]self as a memoirist."[5]While Samatar is currently working on an actual memoir, The White Mosque,[6]it is significant that her experiences writing fiction are what help her to claim an identity as .  · Sofia Samatar's collection of stories reveals human (or not-so-human) tenderness as the aching of a wound, or the gentle kindness from another, or the vulnerability of the young. It's a stunning collection of powerful stories with beautiful writing and many with creative ways of expressing the tale (essay format, journal entries, letters) that provides a unique depth and texture/5(99).

Tender Is Filled with Beautiful Tales about the Strangeness of Being Human. It can feel like a dream, reading Sofia Samatar. With prose that can haunt you or lull you by turns, entice you or create an ache in you heart, her writing resonates, no matter the story. A Campbell winner for best new writer with two brilliant, unconventional fantasy. "Sofia Samatar is a wonder and this collection of stories is a dazzling display of her gifts. Inventive and wildly intelligent, thrilling and bracing, Tender is a book you need to read. Like right now." ~ Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom. A relentless, challenging, and hypnotic collection, Sofia Samatar's Tender transports the reader to myriad worlds, periods of history, and monstrous futures yet to be born. It can be a difficult text, demanding a high level of engagement with multiple layers and themes. At the same time, its subtle yet wrenching emotions have a way of getting.

Photo by Jim C. Hines. Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories, the short story collection, Tender, and Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has won several awards, including the World Fantasy Award. She teaches African literature, Arabic literature, and speculative fiction at James Madison University. "Most of the 20 sumptuous tales in Sofia Samatar’s collection Tender take place on Earth – although not always the Earth we might recognize. Sprawling in subject from the supernatural power of names to the loneliness of a half-robot woman, Tender redefines the emotional power and literary heft that speculative fiction can convey. Where Samatar’s acclaimed fantasy novels exist in a strange, dreamlike world, her short stories daringly explore the overlap of familiarity and otherness.”. “The stories in Sofia Samatar’s Tender are perfect and profound works of art written with the impossible ease of someone who has unlimited access to the secret knowledge of the exact right order in which words are supposed to go. The stories ring in sympathy with the reader like the favorite stories of childhood or youth or old age: Familiar and strange in the same proportion.