Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen’s writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time—the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear.The year is 1619, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years War has begun, and fear and susp...

‘Riveting’ Margaret Atwood ‘I loved this book intensely’ Lauren Groff GuardianThe plague is spreading. The hundred year war is beginning. Katharina Kepler is believed to be a witch.Known for her herbal remedies and successful children – among them Johannes, Imperial Mathematician and author of the laws of planetary motion – Katharina’s life is changed by an accusation of witchcraft. Facing financial ruin, torture and even execution, she tells her side of the story....

Germania, 1618. La peste continua inesorabilmente a mietere vittime, e in Europa si sentono risuonare i primi colpi della Guerra dei Trent'anni, appena cominciata. A Leonberg, un villaggio del ducato del Württemberg, l'anziana vedova Katharina Kepler viene accusata di stregoneria. A prendere le sue difese ci sono solo i figli – tra cui il maggiore, Johannes, matematico imperiale e rinomato autore delle leggi sui moti dei pianeti – e il vicino di casa Simon. Nel suo nuovo romanzo Rivka Gal...

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies.‘Beguiling … A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios … A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.’ Boston GlobeOne August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka Galchen, a puma moved into her apartment. Her arrival felt supernatural, she seemed to come from another world. And suddenly, the world seemed ludicrously, ...

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Salon.com Top Ten Book of the YearA Plain Dealer (Cleveland) Best Book of the YearA Slate Best Book of the YearRivka Galchen's Atmospheric Disturbances is a "witty, tender, and conceptually dazzling" ( Booklist) novel about the mysterious nature of human relationships.When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappea...

Already much praised and described as ‘playful yet profound, Murakami-esque yet original…heartbreaking…stunning…an unforgettable debut’ (Vendela Vida), Atmospheric Disturbances is one of the most widely anticipated fiction debuts of 2008.‘Last December, a woman entered my apartment who looked exactly like my wife…’ Dr Leo Liebenstein is convinced that his wife has disappeared and that she has been replaced by a double.While everyone else may be fooled, Leo knows she cannot ...

La anciana Katharina Kepler, madre de uno de los más célebres astrónomos de todos los tiempos, Johannes Kepler, es acusada de brujería por vecinos envidiosos. Se la culpa de envenenar, lesionar y matar animales y personas. Aunque «ni siquiera puedo ganar al backgammon», le dice ella a su vecino y tutor legal en un relato oral que recorre las peripecias de su juicio y, con ellas, el universo a menudo delirante pero también atroz de las cazas de brujas en la Europa moderna.Todo e...

In paperback at last: Rivka Galchen’s beloved baby bible—slyly hilarious, surprising, and absolutely essential reading for anyone who has ever had, held, or been a babyIn this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writers—Jane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch, Djuna Barnes, Mavis Gal...

Una tarde cualquiera en Nueva York, el psiquiatra Leo Liebenstein se da cuenta de que la mujer que ha entrado en su casa con un perro y actúa como Rema —su esposa de origen argentino sobre la que sabe casi todo pero también, en cierto sentido, poco y nada— no es Rema. O él cree que no es Rema. El simulacro, como él la llama, parece su mujer «representada por alguien un poco mayor». El doctor Liebenstein, que narra la historia, emprende entonces la búsqueda de su esposa rea...

Si hay algo que caracteriza la narrativa de Rivka Galchen es la precisión de sus extravagancias. En los relatos que integran este volumen —en el que caben fantasmas y viajes en el tiempo, madres e hijas que buscan un lenguaje común, padres ausentes pero encantadores, mujeres que adquieren nuevas partes del cuerpo o pierden sus posesiones— los personajes se aferran a distintas ilusiones siempre a bordo de una lógica hilarante y, a su modo irracional, muy lúcida y querible.Llena de g...

"It’s both transfixing and destabilizing. It’s the best thing I listened to all winter." —Alexis Gunderson, PASTE MagazineThe startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from Rivka Galchen, the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman...

“Rivka Galchen delivers joy and cleverness reminiscent of The Phantom Tollbooth, Alice in Wonderland, and Hayao Miyazaki movies” (NPR, Best Books of 2019) in Rat Rule 79, a brain-twisting adventure story about friendship, growing up, and peanut-butter-pickle sandwiches.Fred and her math-teacher mom are always on the move, and Fred is getting sick of it. She’s about to have yet another birthday in a new place without friends. On the eve of...