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“The most unexpected second book by a writer of note to appear in years...an engrossing story of brotherly division.”—John Freeman, Boston GlobeThe much-anticipated debut novel from National Book Award “5 under 35” author Josh Weil, whom Colum McCann lauded as one of “the most gifted writers of his generation,” The Great Glass Sea is an epic tale of brotherly love, swathed in all the magic of Russian folklore and set against the backdrop of an all-too-real alternate present. This is an ambitious novel of love, loss, and light, and a spellbinding vision of an alternative Russia as stirring as it is profound.“Moving and sensitive…evokes the mythic feel of a contemporary classic. There's pathos and tension…breathtaking brilliance. Weil's greatest gift to the reader: a deep understanding of family, personal loss and the abiding love between siblings.”—Los Angeles Times
The Great Glass Sea, by Josh Weil- Amazon Sales Rank: #1288864 in Books
- Brand: Weil, Josh
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.20" h x 1.40" w x 5.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 480 pages
Review Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, The Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction, and the GrubStreet National Book Prize Shortlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel PrizeA New York Times Editor’s ChoiceA featured LA Times "Summer Book", A Bustle “Best Book for July”, One of Flavorwire’s "10 Must Read Books for July"“[A] fascinating debut novel… The Great Glass Sea is not an alternative history, …but a fantastical vision inspired by bits and pieces of Russian language history, and culture. It is beautifully baffled by the mysterious Russian soul.”—New York Times Book Review"Josh Weil’s The Great Glass Sea is the most unexpected second book by a writer of note to appear in years….A grand fable…an absorbing and touching tale...Few young writers appreciate landscape, the way it shapes and diminishes people who live off it, quite like Weil...an engrossing story of brotherly division."—John Freeman,Boston Globe"With his brilliant new novel, The Great Glass Sea, Weil maintains this balance beautifully over 474 pages, sweeping the reader along with careful characterization and exuberant language...the book has the heartbeat of a fable, and plays out in the rhythms of a story told for generations. The resultant feeling is that of being on someone’s knee while hearing this magnificent tale."—James Scott, The Rumpus.com"Weil’s highly original drama unfolds in a fittingly unique setting…The Great Glass Sea showcases a dystopian society on a grand scale. An ambitious and richly imagined debut novel.”— Malcolm Forbes, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune“Moving and sensitive…evokes the mythic feel of a contemporary classic. There's pathos and tension…breathtaking brilliance. Weil's greatest gift to the reader: a deep understanding of family, personal loss and the abiding love between siblings.”—Jeff Vandermeer, Los Angeles Times“Captivating. A kind of sweeping historical fable...superbly drawn.”—Kendal Weaver, Associated Press"Weil conjures up image after image of great beauty and melancholy...some of them, like a lone figure skating atop the Oranzheria, have an indelible originality....The Great Glass Sea is a work of great ambition and imagination."—Yvonne Zipp, Christian Science Monitor“Vivid prose and soaring imagination…an inventive dystopian tale from a brilliant storyteller about a not-so-far-fetched alternate present, a tale about family and brotherhood that simultaneously brings to light poignant political and philosophical inquiries. It’s a stunningly imagined debut that will dazzle and mesmerize readers as they disappear into its visionary depths and resurface with a new and more profound understanding of fraternal love.”— Bustle, July 2014’s Best Books “Close to 500 pages, Weil’s novel bends genres, uses Russian folklore, and gives you enough little philosophical nuggets to bite on to fill your July quota for strange, but totally engrossing novels.”— Flavorwire, "10 Must Read Books for July""When Weil’s prose and “Russian novel” connect with our contemporary anxieties about the future of labor and value, something magical happens.”—Austin American Statesman"An ambitious and accomplished debut novel, one that reshapes the world even as it reflects our own reality back to us, now more brightly lit than ever before."—The Brooklyn Rail“Thoughtful, elegiac…Weil couches this complex tale in prose that is lyrical, funny, sad, and often echoes folk-tale language. An audacious SF what-if…it will make you think and wonder. Sometimes it will make you laugh, and by the end, it will reward you.”—Fantasy Literature“Lyrical prose pulls readers from each paragraph to the next, and is peppered with brilliant and dark imagery as well as colorful Russian folklore, making The Great Glass Sea a must-read for fans of literary fiction.”— Book Page“Evocative of Russian classics…an ambitious analysis of the fallout of that one single moment, how the drive to work and amass impacts our happiness, and conversely how listlessness or a lack of ambition do the same…The Great Glass Sea is a joy to reflect on…Josh Weil proves himself a storyteller with the ability to deliver the kind of complex literature (with room for interpretation that lends itself to discussion and debate) in a time where fast, easy and digestible are far more common place."—Examiner"If complex literary novels really are done for, Josh Weil must’ve missed the text message. His formidable “The Great Glass Sea” knits together strands of traditional Slavic folklore and futuristic speculative fiction to create a passionate reflection on technology and personal happiness. Spanning almost 500 pages, the novel poses mind-bending questions about politics, ecology and the ambivalent closeness of siblings...Weil pulls off dazzling strokes of storytelling...His distinctive voice obliges readers to slow down and swish certain passages around before swallowing...Pushing the envelope on literary artistry even further, each chapter begins with a pen-and-ink illustration by the author...A genre-bending epic steeped in archetypal stories, “The Great Glass Sea,” rises above the usual Cain-and-Abel formula by way of sensitive, resourceful craftsmanship."—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"A genuinely fascinating novel—for its inventiveness, its passionate breadth and vision."—Richard Ford“Josh Weil writes away from all the official channels, and yet he writes about exactly where we are now. His vision is sustained by proper instinct and intelligent observation. He is certainly among the most gifted writers of his generation.” — Colum McCann“The Great Glass Sea is our world made uncanny: the Russian countryside of folktale and literature turned darkly luminous, menacing, and brittle. I was intoxicated by this novel's brains and I fell hopelessly in love with its heart. Josh Weil is a spectacular talent."—Lauren Groff“A marvelously strange parable, brought to earth by a nuanced and deeply felt portrait of fraternal love. If The New Valley didn't convince you, The Great Glass Sea will: Josh Weil is a storyteller of the first order."—Joshua Ferris“The Great Glass Sea imagines a Russia of the near-future that stands in for both the rest of the globe and the bonds between us as individuals: a world of both magical bounty and heartbreaking ephemerality. It’s about the urge to on the one hand conserve all we can while on the other to make of all we encounter a field of ceaseless yield, and it’s as sad and filled with wonder on its obsessive subject of brotherly love as any novel I’ve recently encountered.”— Jim Shepard
From the Inside Flap From celebrated storyteller Josh Weil comes an epic tragedy of brotherly love, a sui generis novel swathed in all the magic of Russian folklore and set against the dystopian backdrop of an all too real alternate present.Twin brothers Yarik and Dima have been inseparable since childhood. Living on their uncle’s farm after the death of their father, the boys once spent their days helping farmers in collective fields, their nights spellbound by their uncle’s mythic tales. Years later, the two men labor side by side at the Oranzheria, a sea of glass — the largest greenhouse in the world — that sprawls over acres of cropland. Lit by space mirrors orbiting above, it ensnares the denizens of Petroplavilsk in perpetual daylight and constant productivity, leaving the twins with only work in common—stalwart Yarik married with children, oppressed by the burden of responsibility; dreamer Dima living alone with his mother and rooster, wistfully planning the brothers’ return to their uncle’s land.But an encounter with the Oranzerhia’s billionaire owner changes their lives forever. Dima drifts into a laborless life of bare subsistence while Yarik begins a headspinning ascent from promotion to promotion until both men become poster boys for opposing ideologies, pawns at the center of conspiracies and deceptions that threaten to destroy not only the lives of those they love but the very love that has bonded the brothers since birth. This is a breathtakingly ambitious novel of love, loss, and light, set amid a bold vision of an alternative present-day Russia.
About the Author Josh Weil was the recipient of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction for his debut novella collection, The New Valley. He has been named a National Book Award "5 Under 35" author, a Fulbright scholar, and was a Jersey Fellow at Columbia University. His fiction has appeared in Granta, StoryQuarterly, and New England Review, among others. Weil divides his time between New York City and Southwestern Virginia.
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful. People in glass houses .... (aaah, go ahead and throw it). By Tanstaafl First, the reason for four stars rather than five, though much about this book was worth that extra star. Books set in Russia do not have to read as if they are emulating War and Peace. While that book was and is great, its length has kept way too many people from enjoying its writing and its story. While The Great Glass Sea is a little under 500 pages, it reads much longer. And that's unfortunate. The saving grace is that the author did not also emulate the normal method of using complete names each time a person is referenced.Second, the reasons for there being four stars. Little knowledge of Russia and its history is necessary to read this. The story was well written. The storyline, if bought into, was interesting to consider. And, the characters were interesting enough to not detract from the story.The story did, however, suffer from the incomplete side stories of the side characters that made it read as if this had perhaps been of the length of War and Peace then cut to its current size. Lest it seem that I'm arguing for more length while griping about how long it is, more could have been done with less. There was a lot of repetitious material that had me skimming paragraphs I felt I had already read instead of reading more about other people and events.Overall, this was interesting and I'm glad I read it. However, Its length and pace will limit its appeal and keep me from recommending it to my friends who haven't figured out that a 500 page book isn't any longer than the two 250 page ones they just read. If you are interested in a deep family dissecting character study with an unusual plot set a little in the future, then you might be well pleased with this one.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Two brothers torn apart By Dave Astle Dima and Yarik are twin brothers, born in the USSR, raised during the fall of Communism, and now living in a Russia that is far from either of these times, not in years but in circumstances. The twins are as close as any two people can be until their lives take two very different paths.The brothers both work at the Oranzheria, a project that has eliminated darkness in their part of Russia by using mirrors. I can't say that I ever really understood exactly how that worked but that doesn't matter. There are constantly workers at the Oranzheria, either adding new mirrors or working the land beneath the mirrors, growing crops. Weekends are a thing of the past. People are working or they are sleeping. There is nothing else left.When the billionaire behind the Oranzheria takes an interest in Yarik and promotes him, Dima is disenchanted with his job and he quits. For a long time, he does nothing. Then, one day, he decides to recite Pushkin in the square. At first, his audience is small but soon it swells and with the crowd of people that come to hear him come the police. He is warned not to return but he has already done the damage. The people want more from their lives. The Communists want Dima for their side, the anarchists for theirs. All Dima wants is to be able to buy his uncle's old farm and live there with Yarik and Yarik's family and their mother. He isn't trying to start a revolution but somehow it seems that he has.Meanwhile, Yarik has become closer and closer to the billionaire. Soon, the only thing keeping Dima alive is Yarik's relationship with the man in power and the money he pays to keep Dima safe. At the same time he's embarrassed by Dima, by who he has become, and he stops seeing him, stops allowing him to come to his apartment to see his children. He is burdened with the responsibilities he has to take care of his wife and children, his mother, and his troublesome but beloved brother.While this book isn't full of action and is primarily about these 2 men and their lives, I still enjoyed this book. It isn't as much a book about a dystopian Russia as it is about two inseparable brothers who become strangers, and worse than strangers. It is a book about familial love and heartbreak.
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful. Clever Science Fiction Mixed With Dysfunctional Family Drama By Reader from Washington, DC I had very ambiguous feelings about this book. The science fiction concepts it develops are extremely interesting and carefully worked-out, but they are contained within an icky and somewhat unconvincing dysfunctional family drama.The science fiction aspects of the plot are gripping. A wealthy oligarch -- one of modern Russia's powerful billionaires -- decides to place space mirrors in orbit that will catch the light of the sun at night, creating perpetual daytime in a sub-Arctic city and the predominantly rural communities near it on the shores of Russia's giant inland Lake Onega. (All localities in the book are given different names from those they bear in real life.)The mirrors focus this perpetual daylight not only on the city and its rural suburbs, but on a gigantic greenhouse next to the city, spanning hundreds of acres and growing continuously, turning a previously sub-Arctic rural area into a bread and vegetable basket for all of Russia.The novel then describes the impact of perpetual daylight on the people, animals and plant life of a previously sub-Arctic city.I found the science fiction aspects of the story fascinating. However, the two protagonists of the novel -- and their family drama -- were not very interesting to me.Yarik and Dima are identical twin brothers, sons of a poor fisherman and a factory worker. They look forward eagerly to spending their adult lives together working on their uncle's farm. Their plans are interrupted by the greenhouse project. One brother becomes an advocate for the greenhouse project; the other becomes a spokesman for the opposition.The brothers' conflict bored me -- the fictional device of having overly-close twins speak for opposing ideological views seemed unnecessary -- I found myself skipping long descriptions of their family problems to read accounts of how the mirror project affected other people and the surrounding environment beyond one dysfunctional family.The book is also severely overwritten -- the author clearly wanted to write beautiful, ornate and lyrical prose, but this makes some parts of the book overly long and repetitious. The book's text could have been cut by 50 percent, and still achieved the effects that the author was apparently striving for.
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