Sweetlust, Asja Bakic
Sweetlust, Asja Bakic
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Sweetlust
Stories

Author: Asja Bakić, Jennifer Zoble

Narrator: Katherine Littrell

Unabridged: 5 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/28/2023

Synopsis

In a dystopian world with no men, women are “rehabilitated” at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of The Sorrows of Young Werther refocuses to center a sexually adventurous Charlotte. Asja Baki? deploys the speculative and weird to playfully interrogate conversations around artificial intelligence, gender fluidity, and environmental degradation. As she did in her acclaimed debut Mars, Baki? once again upends her characters’ convictions and identities—and infuses each disorienting universe with sly humor and off-kilter eroticism. Visceral and otherworldly, Sweetlust takes apart human desire and fragility, repeatedly framing pleasure as both inviting and perilous.

About Asja Bakić

Asja Bakić is a Bosnian author of poetry and prose as well as a translator. She was selected as one of Literary Europe Live’s New Voices from Europe 2017, and her writing has been translated into seven languages. Her debut, Mars, was published in English by Feminist Press in 2019. She currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

About Jennifer Zoble

Jennifer Zoble translates Balkan literature into English. Her recent translations include Call Me Esteban and Mars, which was selected by Publishers Weekly as a best book of 2019. She is on the faculty of Liberal Studies at New York University, where she teaches writing and translation.

About Katherine Littrell

Katherine Littrell is a Sydney-based audiobook narrator who studied English literature at Bryn Mawr College. She has lived in the United States and the U.K. but is glad to be back home in Australia, where she enjoys knitting, making furniture, and talking out loud to herself in small spaces.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sunny on May 28, 2023

4.5 long live short stories and women’s speculative fiction and socialist feminist surrealism......more

Goodreads review by fridayinapril on June 02, 2023

Sweetlust is the second collection of short stories by Bakić translated by Zoble. Bakić touches on themes of gender, climate change, and power with undertones of dry humor. The stories move quickly. They are at times weird and quirky, and at times they border on the supernatural and dystopian. • Albe......more

Goodreads review by Puella Sole on September 05, 2020

Priče ove zbirke čine jednu pravu hibridnu mješavinu fantastike, antike, elemenata klasične književne tradicije, distopijskog, mračnog i duhovitog, modernog, beskrajno isprepletenog i svedenog, erotskog i pornografskog. Ovome bi se moglo dodati i to da pričama ne nedostaje ni ideološka pozadina, nap......more

Goodreads review by gabi on July 09, 2023

3.75 (lol) peeking eyes all the way through. didn’t want to look, couldn’t look away. for fans of yellowjackets (w/o the flesheating sozz xx)......more

Goodreads review by ivana on September 19, 2024

ova trojka je ekstremno solidna trojka, not amazing, but also nowhere near bad. falilo mi je nešto da krenemo u 4☆, al nmg si nikako dokučit što......more

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