(In)visible
by Ivan BAIDAK
Description
The most recent bestseller of Ukrainian author Ivan Baidak and Best Book of 2020 according to PEN Ukrain.
Diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome as a teenager, Adam, now a 26-year-old freelance designer, attends his first meeting at a social support group. Here he meets Anna, a charity worker with a face hemangioma; Marta, a TV anchor with alopecia;
and Eva, a make up artist with vitiligo. The following week he moves in with them.
Shaped after the writer’s own experience of living with Tourette’s syndrome, Adam tries to move from self-inflicted invisibility to being visible—in his family, career, and personal life.
The most recent bestseller of Ukrainian author Ivan Baidak and Best Book of 2020 according to PEN Ukraine, (In)visible is a book about what it means to be different. A book that encourages acceptance and tolerance. A book about fear and escape, about the necessity of being loved and accepted. It’s about the permanent struggle with your complexes and attempts to start loving yourself. It’s about hard stories. But also about big hearts.
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Rights Information
Rights sold in English (Guernica, Canada, published in sept. 2022), in Italan (Flâneurs Edizioni, 2023)
Author Biography
Іvan Baidak (born in 1990) is a daring Ukrainian fiction writer whose debut novel Personally Me Personally for You (2013) became a national
bestseller and garnered excellent critical reviews. His two short story collections, Role Plays (2014) and The Shadows of Our Dates (2017), topped
bookstore bestseller lists. His latest novel A Man With My Name (2019) was
excellent proof of the writer’s maturity.
In 2020, he wrote a social novel about the inclusion, (In)visible, which
received publicity among the elite of society. The book was recognized as
one of the best in 2020 according to PEN Ukraine. There was a theater
play staged based on the book, and several photo exhibitions. It has been translated in English (Guernica, Canada) and Italian (Flâneurs Edizioni).
Originally from Ukraine, he’s lived in many places across the world,
including Poland, Austria, Mexico, and the United States. His short stories
have been translated into English, German, Serbian, Polish, Spanish, and
Italian, and presented at European literary festivals. In 2019, the author’s
debut Euro-tour took place, during which Ivan visited Warsaw, Krakow,
Wroclaw, Prague, Berlin, Munich and Paris. He received a scholarship
from Gaude Polonia 2020.
He left Lviv in early 2022 and was hosted by Camargo Foundation in
Cassis, France, and Slovenian Writers Association in Bled, Slovenia. He’s currently living in Figueres (Spain, Catalonia).
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- Publisher Vivat Publishing
- Publication Date December 2021
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789669822673
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- FormatHardback
- Pages155
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Title(Не)помітні
- Copyright Year2020
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