Paperback: Twenty-something author and minor media influencer Stasys Šaltoka - or Stanley Colder to his adoring IG followers - has hit an existential wall. Abandoning his clichéd and stifling New York city life, he buys a one-way ticket to Southeast Asia in search of life-changing experiences.
A chance meeting with an enigmatic Russian leads Stasys to a documentary project - the murder of a mysterious Mongolian model that implicates a prime minister and his jewel-hoarding wife.
Unravelling the truth takes Stasys deeper through the murky swamp of extreme corruption, death, Islamophobia and media manipulation.
Will he ever figure out the meaning of life or find a decent espresso?
Cold East (2017, 2018) has been shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature 2019 and Book of the Year in Lithuania 2018. It won the Jurga Ivanauskaitė Literary Prize (Lithuania) 2018 and the Penang Monthly Book Prize 2018. Cold East is translated from the Lithuanian by Kipras Šumskas.
About the author: Gabija Grušaitė is an author and curator; Cold East is her second novel. A graduate of Anthropology & Media from Goldsmiths College, UK, Gabija has defined her creative pursuit by the relentless search of new horizons through travel. In 2009, she settled in Penang, Malaysia, where she cofounded an independent, contemporary art centre – Hin Bus Depot – as its curator-in-chief. She currently lives in Vilnius, Lithuania with her two Malaysian dogs, Gorgeous and Hazelnut.
About the translator: Kipras Šumskas has translated movies, magazines, several books, and far too many legal documents. In his spare time, he teaches Creative Thinking to teenagers and kids in informal education projects.
Rating: 5/5
Rating: 5/5
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