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All the Names They Used for God: Stories

par Anjali Sachdeva

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"A haunting, diverse debut story collection that explores the isolation we experience in the face of the mysterious, often dangerous forces that shape our lives Anjali Sachdeva's debut collection spans centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters but is united by each character's epic struggle with fate: A workman in Andrew Carnegie's steel mills is irrevocably changed by the brutal power of the furnaces; a fisherman sets sail into overfished waters and finds a secret obsession from which he can't return; an online date ends with a frightening, inexplicable dissapearance. Her story "Pleiades" was called "a masterpiece" by Dave Eggers. Sachdeva has a talent for creating moving and poignant scenes, following her highly imaginative plots to their logical ends, and depicting how one small miracle can affect everyone in its wake"--… (plus d'informations)

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Some quite unusual stories with interesting perspectives that provoke thought. The story about 7 identical engineered siblings makes one wonder about the wisdom of scientific involvement of that type. Recommended (

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jldarden | Oct 1, 2023 |

Very good collection. I found them well thought-out and crafted, and I quite liked this examination of the ruthlessness of outside circumstances. As for the 'fabulist edge', I agree but liked the earlier stories better than the later, and I feel like that edge gets wider as we go along. This is not a comment on quality (they are good stories), but some collections read like "I write short stories as an end in itself because I love them" and others read like "I am writing these short stories to perfect them as practice for writing a novel." I feel like this belongs in the second group, and I generally prefer the first.
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Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |

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I don’t know how I picked this up, but I am very glad that I did. These are nine tremendously varied and uniformly excellent stories. There’s John Milton, there’s a man with glass in his lungs, there’s a mermaid, there’s a girl who vanishes; more than half of them are on the sff side of the divide, and all of them are pretty magical. I usually find it difficult to write up short fiction collections, and this is no exception, but I really recommend it. (

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nwhyte | Apr 1, 2023 |

The temporal and geographic range of these stories is impressive, the prose unadorned but suggestive and probing of the human condition. Sachdeva is a true talent. File under caving, fulgurite, fork-hands and mermaids.

MusicalGlass | Mar 26, 2023 |

It's been a few months since I read this, and what has stuck with me most was images (like lungs of glass) not characters or emotions. Looking back, the only character that clearly forms for me is the main woman in "All the Names They Used for God."

These are beautifully written stories with startling imagery in them, but I never felt emotionally connected to the stories or characters. (

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Nom de l'auteur	Rôle	Type d'auteur	Œuvre ?	Statut
Anjali Sachdeva	—	auteur principal	toutes les éditions	calculé
Ake, Rachel	Concepteur de la couverture	auteur secondaire	quelques éditions	confirmé
Fournier, Hélène	Traduction	auteur secondaire	quelques éditions	confirmé
Viola, Fabio	Traduttore	auteur secondaire	quelques éditions	confirmé

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Chautauqua Prize (Sélection finale – 2019)

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (Sélection finale – Nouvelle étrangère – 2022)

Reading Women Award (Gagnant – Fiction – 2018)

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NPR: Books We Love (2018)

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In the old times, people knew better than to trust the gods. Deities were tempestuous, even capricious They could bring harvest or drought, make your mouth drip with jewels or snakes, and their reasons were often mysterious. People lived accordingly; they expected a measure of bitterness with anything sweet. -Introduction

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"A haunting, diverse debut story collection that explores the isolation we experience in the face of the mysterious, often dangerous forces that shape our lives Anjali Sachdeva's debut collection spans centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters but is united by each character's epic struggle with fate: A workman in Andrew Carnegie's steel mills is irrevocably changed by the brutal power of the furnaces; a fisherman sets sail into overfished waters and finds a secret obsession from which he can't return; an online date ends with a frightening, inexplicable dissapearance. Her story "Pleiades" was called "a masterpiece" by Dave Eggers. Sachdeva has a talent for creating moving and poignant scenes, following her highly imaginative plots to their logical ends, and depicting how one small miracle can affect everyone in its wake"--

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