MILES FROM NOWHERE by Nami Mun
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Released on January 2, 2009.
Paperback released on September 1, 2009

A major new voice in fiction debuts with the electrifying and heartbreaking story of a teenage runaway on the streets of 1980s New York.

Teenage Joon is a Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father’s infidelity; he has left the family, and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of thirteen, decides she would be better off... (read more)
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MILES FROM NOWHERE by Nami Mun
Kategori:
Eğlence ve Sanat - Kitap ve Edebiyat
Açıklama:
Released on January 2, 2009.
Paperback released on September 1, 2009

A major new voice in fiction debuts with the electrifying and heartbreaking story of a teenage runaway on the streets of 1980s New York.

Teenage Joon is a Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father’s infidelity; he has left the family, and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of thirteen, decides she would be better off... (read more)
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Chicago, IL

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Nami Mun wins a 2009 Whiting Award

MILES FROM NOWHERE selected for "Top 10 First Novels of 2009" by Booklist

Nami Mun selected as "Best New Novelist" by Chicago Magazine

MILES FROM NOWHERE selected for Amazon’s Best Fiction of 2009 (So Far) list

MILES FROM NOWHERE shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers

About the Orange prize: http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/Award-for-New-Writers/Award-2009-shortlist

Nami Mun featured in the Independent (UK): http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/from-avon-lady-to-dance-hostess-to-prizewinning-novelist-1664441.html

MILES FROM NOWHERE selected for “Top Shelf: Recommended Reading” by Book Passage/San Francisco Chronicle

MILES FROM NOWHERE selected for “Spring Reading For Your Bedside Table” by KPBS.org

MILES FROM NOWHERE selected for “Adult Book Picks” by The Spartanburg Herald-Journal


SELECTED REVIEWS

THE BOSTON GLOBE: “Vivid and mournful…an emotionally upending story. Mun relays it all with a jarring honesty that makes the book both difficult to read and impossible to forget.”

PEOPLE MAGAZINE (Four stars, People Pick) – “…a searing debut… [Mun] writes with lovely precision, lending a hallucinatory beauty to the bleak world she has created.”

CHICAGO TRIBUNE - “…a gritty, riveting story about a teenage runaway who drifts through the casual nightmares of street life.”

THE BELIEVER - “Mun illuminates a side of American life one is not likely to see elsewhere…Mun does many thing extremely well, and one of those is forcing the reader to feel the bone-chilling cold of having nowhere to go.”

THE GUARDIAN (UK) “…shot through with outrageous characters, transient loves and wisecracking dialogue. Brief, balanced and gritty…”

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER - "...a remarkable debut novel… It is an intense look at life on the streets, one that gives genuine voice and heart to struggling people on society’s margins. [Joon’s] distinctive voice — deadpan, unassuming, but also oddly poetic — is one of the novel’s greatest strengths and a constant source of wonder.”

CHICAGO MAGAZINE - “…beautifully grim, completely addictive novel…”

THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL - “…Nami Mun can write. Her style is direct, with tight brushstrokes that bring out the expressiveness in the spaces between sentences. She has the sensibility of a short-story writer, diving into the heart of a situation, while skinning off the padding around the edges. The chapters of the novel read as standalone stories that for the most part are compelling in their own right. And because of the chronological sequence, as well as the thematic and situational echoes, Miles from Nowhere also carries the full weight and impact of a novel—one with a voice as strong as the people it represents.”

THE SUN SENTINEL - “Mun’s use of firm, unshowy language is just one of the sinews in her first novel…She certainly would have reaped far more publicity if she’d cast “Miles From Nowhere” as a memoir. It’s to her credit as an artist that she has written this unsettling, unsentimental novel instead.”

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS- “Mun is an artist… she renders the painful realities of Joon’s life so beautifully that one must keep reading…For those who enjoy strictly lighthearted reads, this might not be enough. But those who delight in the raw power of words have a new author to add to our libraries.”

THE STAR LEDGER - “The story of how Joon survives…has the beaten-metal feel of autobiography hammered into fiction in the best way....Mun’s prose has so much casual energy and rough edge, it feels incredibly fresh.”

THE PORTLAND MERCURY - “Clear-eyed first novel…smartly observed and quietly insightful…”

GLAMOUR - “…heartbreaking novel…a gritty debut…”

TIME OUT CHICAGO- “The sound and rhythm of [Mun’s] sentences enable her to convey the deadpan of a jaded teen in a terrifying world with understated poeticism…[and] sometimes her language is just plain lovely.”

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS - [Mun’s] vibrant new voice has created an engaging character with as much true grit as Huck Finn.”

THE SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE - “Miles from Nowhere is one of the most vivid and haunting novels I’ve read in years.”

WESTERN OREGON JOURNAL - “Miles From Nowhere is one of those novels you may want to buy because after reading it, you will find yourself recommending it to everyone and you may even want to read it again.”

CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO'S “Eight Forty-Eight” - …exquisite and shattering debut novel… Like Holden [Caulfied], Joon is acutely sensitive with a dead-on, deadpan wit, a longing for truth, and a terrible fear of never knowing love…she embodies life’s insistence, and our astonishing capacity for not only survival, but also transformation…Miles from Nowhere is a work of lacerating honesty and cauterizing compassion.”

MPR’s ALL THINGS CONSIDERED - “…a beautiful but heartrendingly tough tale…”

THE AGE (Australia): “…[A] talented literary debut…Mun’s descriptions of street life are far from rose-coloured, but there is a forceful quality to her writing that lends the bleak material a luminous vitality. The author emerges as a toughminded literary stylist, balancing poetry and grit in the creation of memorable characters that — even at their most terrifying — never become caricatures."

BOOKLIST (Starred Review) - “[E]xplosive first novel…Mun’s gritty and empathic coming-of-age tale confronts the madness that lurks on the periphery of lust and love, the poison of racism, the suffering of the unloved, and the fierce survival instincts, adaptability, and radiance of young people."

LIBRARY JOURNAL (Starred Review) - ”The story of Joon’s descent into heroin addiction and prostitution on the streets of New York is grim but absolutely authentic…A haunting debut…”

KIRKUS REVIEW - “Austere, but with its own bleak beauty.”

BOOKFORUM - “Befitting the confessions of its opiate-eating narrator, Nami Mun’s first novel has a junkie’s jumbled sense of chronology… but the narrative moves back and forth in time so fluidly that it seems to take place, as the title suggests, in a province all its own.

LE MONDE - “Radical and admirable…”

PASTE MAGAZINE - “With a gift for momentum, Mun… weaves a narration both dense and floating.”

VENUS ZINE - “A younger writer might have focused on the more ‘shocking’ aspects of Joon’s lifestyle, but Mun… underplays the inevitable scenes of violence and exploitation, writing more to illuminate her characters’ essential humanity than to incite a prurient response.”

AUTHOR MAGAZINE – “Nami Mun accurately depicts the horrors and dangers of the street life, but without ever trying to manipulate the reader’s emotions. The writing is spare and clean and never sentimental, but with a shimmer that is occasionally electrifying. Joon-Mee is a heroine you will care about. She is as clear and straightforward as the writing, but with a heart of sweetness and poetry and hope.”

THE BATTALION - “Beautifully written in a dark prose style reminiscent of Southern Goth, readers trudge through a five-year seemingly hopeless journey with a young Asian girl, wanting, more than their own dreams perhaps that hers come true.”

THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - “The characters are rough around the edges, but soften into compassionate friends and allies on the gritty streets. Although tough to take at times, readers will understand Joon’s pain and interpret it as their own, making Miles From Nowhere a simple attempt to spell out every individual’s endless pursuit of happiness.”

KOREAN AMERICAN JOURNAL - “…[a] heartwrenching debut novel…Joon’s tumultuous journey is told first hand as her encounters with homelessness, physical abuse, drug addiction, fleeing friends, dead-end jobs, and petty crimes keep readers at the edge of their seats waiting to find out how it will all end.”

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “[Miles from Nowhere] is a 1980s urban odyssey…Joon’s voice, purged of self-pity, sounds clear and strong on every page.”

THE BOOKSELLER (UK) - “[Miles from Nowhere] is an absorbing read and the potentially bleak subject matter is leavened with tenderness and humour at unexpected moments.”


AUTHOR BIO:
Nami Mun was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up there and in Bronx, New York. She has worked as an Avon Lady, a street vendor, a photojournalist, a waitress, an activities coordinator for a nursing home, and a criminal defense investigator. After earning a GED, she went on to get a BA in English from UC Berkeley, and an MFA from University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award for fiction. She has received a Pushcart Prize, as well as scholarships from Yaddo, MacDowell, Squaw Valley Writer’s Conference, Tin House Writer’s Conference and Key West Literary Seminar. Her stories have been published in the 2007 Pusharcart Prize Anthology, The Iowa Review, Evergreen Review, Witness, Tin House, and other journals. Miles from Nowhere, her debut novel was recently short-listed for the Orange Award for New Writers, and selected for Indie Next, Amazon’s Best of the Month, and Amazon’s Best Novel of the Year (So Far). Mun, herself, was named by Chicago magazine as 2009’s Best New Novelist. She currently lives and teaches Creative Writing in Chicago.