{"title":"Amina Cain","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmina Cain is an acclaimed author whose work delves deeply into the nuances of human experience and the artistry of everyday life. Her books often straddle the line between General Fiction and Biography \u0026amp; Memoir, offering readers an intimate journey through evocative narratives and introspective themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles like \u003cem\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/em\u003e, Cain crafts stories that are both captivating and reflective, inviting readers to explore the quiet moments and the untold stories within. Her writing style is marked by clarity and an almost meditative quality, which makes her books a gentle yet profound read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs an author, Amina Cain is known for her ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary, bringing forth stories that are resonant and deeply personal. Whether you are a fan of poignant fiction or reflective memoirs, her collection promises a rewarding literary experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-horse-at-night-by-amina-cain-9781914198373","title":"A Horse at Night","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssayistic inquiries come together into a sustained meditation on writers and their works, on the spaces of reading and writing fiction, and how these spaces take shape inside a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/i\u003e, Amina Cain contemplates how to be honest, open and free, as a person and a writer, even (and perhaps especially) during a time of great change. She moves elegantly through a personal canon of authors—including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante and Annie Ernaux—and topics as timely and various as female friendships, neighbourhood coyotes, landscape painting and the politics of excess, to profound and joyous effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn individual reckoning with the contemporary moment and a quietly brilliant contribution to the lineage of Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e or William H. Gass's \u003ci\u003eOn Being Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a virtuosic argument for—and beautiful demonstration of—the essential unity of writing and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStunning; unbelievably subtle, precise, \u0026amp; intelligent\u003c\/b\u003e about writing, creativity \u0026amp; art making more widely.\" - Rebecca Tamás, author of \u003ci\u003eStrangers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea thing of rare beauty\u003c\/b\u003e. A book to make you fall in love with the life of a real or imagined writer in a way that feels completely fresh—I love it!\" - Susan Finlay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was a joy to spend time in the company of \u003cb\u003ethe author's elegant, wise voice. Many a sentence was underlined\u003c\/b\u003e. It felt like some bizarre kind of manual.\" - \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46529283424492,"sku":"9781914198373","price":23.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14652223482869.jpg?v=1749209135"},{"product_id":"indelicacy-by-amina-cain-9781922268518","title":"Indelicacy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA ghostly feminist fable, Amina Cain’s \u003ci\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfil her dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a 'strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch' (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society and a maid, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming labour—social and erotic—but she is now, however passively, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys, Octavia Butler, Clarice Lispector and Jean Genet, Amina Cain's \u003ci\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a ghost story without a ghost, a fable without a moral and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature. 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