{"product_id":"the-endless-week-isbn-9781948980272","title":"The Endless Week","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the 2023 winner of the Prix Goncourt for poetry comes a debut novel unlike any other, a lyrical anti-epic about the beauty, violence, trauma, and absurdity of the internet age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Beckett’s novels or Kafka’s stranger tales, \u003ci\u003eThe Endless Week\u003c\/i\u003e is a work outside of time, as if novels had never existed and Laura Vazquez has suddenly invented them. And yet it could not be more contemporary, as startling and constantly new as the scrolling hyper-mediated reality it chronicles. Its characters are Salim, a young poet, and his sister Sara, who rarely leave home except virtually; their father, who is falling apart; and their grandmother, who is dying. To save their grandmother, Salim and Sara set out in search of their long-lost mother, accompanied by Salim’s online friend Jonathan, though their real quest is through the landscape of language and suffering that saturates both the real world and the virtual. \u003ci\u003eThe Endless Week\u003c\/i\u003e is sharp and ever-shifting, at turns hilarious, tender, satirical, and terrifying. Not much happens, yet every moment is compulsively engaging. It is a major work by one of the most fearlessly original writers of our time.“It’s hard not to start with ‘wow.’ This is an astonishing piece of fiction from France. . . . Vazquez is a virtuosa.” — Melanie Fleishman, Center for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dark and deep, a pool of black ink . . . It’s rare to encounter a book as feral and lovely as 'The Endless Week,' one equally fluent in the comedy and the horror of the world — and the word.\" —Walker Rutter-Bowman, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reading this book feels like falling into a whirlpool: it’s inescapable.” —Maggie Lange, \u003ci\u003eW Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, “Must-Read Books for Fall 2025”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Vazquez has created a unique and enduring novel. Something hard and real and tangible glitters amid the vapour of text and image she describes.” —Dustin Illingworth, \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Endless Week \u003c\/i\u003ehas often been described as surreal, which it is in part—macabre, Dali-esque, extremely disjointed, although at other moments sharply realist and sometimes achingly tender. . . . Perhaps this surreal-realist-thematically obsessive-experimental approach has birthed a true Internet novel, which, by definition, cannot resemble our twentieth century, pre-online idea of a novel at all.” — Kai Maristed, \u003ci\u003eArts Fuse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Are the kids ok? Are the elders? Are the gods? Are the dead? In this mesmeric novel, loneliness and the (online) community, language and image, the immediate and the mediated, violence and care construct a tender, precarious microzone called intimacy. A lumbar puncture of a book, a golden strain.” —Joyelle McSweeney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s a rigorously unsettling reading experience, without plot, tension, or character development. But the details and countless vignettes deliver an immense range of emotion. . . . Grotesquely inventive and amusing, like a corner torn from a Hieronymus Bosch painting.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“They say a truly great author can write about anything and make it interesting, and with \u003ci\u003eThe Endless Week\u003c\/i\u003e Laura Vazquez proves that true on every page. If you’re in search of an ultra-contemporary novel that shatters all the rules with inimitable humor and style to spare, look no further—she’s arrived.” —Blake Butler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like all great novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Endless Week \u003c\/i\u003eis about life, time, and death . . . and like all great poets, Laura Vazquez has us encounter violence and beauty through sublime rhythms and poignant variations. She captures human tragedy in the repetition of words, driving the nail of reality deeper . . . Her characters exist powerfully, but not in a conventional way, and they are brought to life through a flux of consciousness that both animates and overwhelms them. . . . These ultra-connected people of the internet live in a bubble full of naïve questions and existential idiocy. . . . Through them, Laura Vazquez marvels at everything, forcing us to see the world anew in the place where humor meets melancholy.” —Camille Laurens, \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The language of this thirty-five-year-old poet from Marseille is so melodious, rhythmic, and visceral, that it recites itself. . . . [Her novel] is about life, death, and the space we can occupy in both the real and virtual worlds, but Laura Vazquez’s words don’t deserve to be flattened by such a vague and reductive summary. Her writing is all precision and breadth. . . . [H]er characters live together in the infinite space of today, on Earth and on the web.” —Marine Landrot, \u003ci\u003eTélérama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Vazquez\u003c\/b\u003e is a leading figure in contemporary French literature, and winner of the 2023 Prix Goncourt for poetry. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Endless Week\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Prix de la Page 111 and was a finalist for the Prix Wepler, and her debut collection of poetry \u003ci\u003eThe Hand of the Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Prix de la Vocation. She published her first play, the lesbian tragedy \u003ci\u003eZero\u003c\/i\u003e, in 2024. Vazquez regularly gives readings around the world in venues such as the Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She lives in Marseille, France.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Niemi\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and award-winning literary translator. She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, the Heldt Prize, and the AATSEEL Prize for best poetry translation from a Slavic language. Her translations include \u003ci\u003eFor the Shrew\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHekate\u003c\/i\u003e by Anna Glazova, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe John Cage Experiences\u003c\/i\u003e by Vincent Tholomé. She also is the author of the poetry chapbook \u003ci\u003eElephant\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Dorothy, a publishing project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233660481765,"sku":"NP9781948980272","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781948980272.jpg?v=1767739188","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-endless-week-isbn-9781948980272","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}