{"product_id":"vehicle-with-jen-calleja-book-ticket-option","title":"Vehicle with Jen Calleja - Book \u0026 Ticket Option","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePurchase your copy of \u003cem\u003eVehicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eand receive a free ticket to our event with Jen Calleja!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor the ticket-only option for this event, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/vehicle-with-jen-calleja-ticket-only-option?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=644ca9979\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eplease click here.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThursday 16th March at 18:30\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/JenCalleja_1_RobinSilasChristian_1_480x480.jpg?v=1671127228\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are so excited to welcome Jen Calleja to Golden Hare Books to celebrate her innovative novel \u003cem\u003eVehicle.\u003c\/em\u003e She will be joined in conversation by Camilla Grudova.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe will follow up on your purchase with an email with more details on the event, which will be held at Golden Hare Books on St Stephen Street.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout \u003cem\u003eVehicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a time when looking into the past has become a socially unacceptable and illegal act in the Nation, a group of scholars are offered an attractive residency to allow them to pursue their projects. When the residency transpires to be a devastating trick, these Researchers go on the run, and soon discover that their projects all relate to one major event: the Isletese Disaster – the decline and subsequent devastation fifty years earlier of a long-forgotten roaming archipelago called The Islets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne figure emerges as central to all of their work: Hester Heller, a reformed cult musiker turned student recruited from the Institute for Transmission as an agent of the state and tasked with gathering reconnaissance on the Disaster by using her old band Vehicle as a cover. Heller is the key to the Researchers collective story, which they try to piece together while evading their pursuers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompiled from the Researchers’ disparate documentation, recollections, and even their imaginations,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVehicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a metafictional work of literary speculative fiction, and a timely and daring exploration of xenophobia, exploitation, the writing of histories and legacies, and the politics of translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Jen Calleja\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJen Calleja is a writer and translator based in London. Her work as appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe London Magazine, Ambit, Another Gaze, TLS, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e, to name a few. She has published two collections of poetry, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSerious Justice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (Test Centre, 2016) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHamburger in the Archive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (if a leaf falls, 2019). Prototype Publishing published her first collection of short fiction, \u003cem\u003eI'm Afraid That's All We've Got Time For\u003c\/em\u003e, in 2020. Her translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Pine Islands\u003c\/em\u003e by Marion Poschmann was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Jen is also a founding editor of Praspar Press, a micro-publisher of Maltese literature in English translation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44152161272122,"sku":"9781913513344","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/products\/9781913513344_1.jpg?v=1671128221","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/vehicle-with-jen-calleja-book-ticket-option","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}