{"title":"Books by Teresa Präauer","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781805331773","title":"Cooking in the Wrong Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn evening of perfect preparation. A night of uninvited chaos.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her stylish apartment, the hostess is hard at work. She folds linen napkins, arranges wildflowers and cues up algorithmically chosen soft jazz to project an effortless cool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery detail is chosen with care, which makes it all the more galling when her guests arrive late and already drunk. As small talk becomes slurred confessions and lost inhibitions, the hostess struggles to maintain control over an evening far beyond her wildest imaginings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe breakout hit about a dinner party that goes deliciously wrong:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Irresistible. . . astute observations on the absurd theatre of aspirational living in the age of social media' \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Brilliantly clever' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A moreish story. . . akin to Vincenzo Latronico's \u003ci\u003ePerfection\u003c\/i\u003e' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Clever, amusing. . . to be consuming in one sitting' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Deliciously unsettling and thoroughly enjoyable' Aysegül Savas, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropologists\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'As pleasurable as a case of Crémant' Claire Powell, author of \u003ci\u003eAt the Table\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful writing' \u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'For anyone who enjoys food, this is a must read! ★★★★★' Goodreads Reviewer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Sharp, darkly funny. . . it kept me fully engaged from start to finish ★★★★★' Goodreads Reviewer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55205958877557,"sku":"9781805331773","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781805331773.jpg?v=1786027821"},{"product_id":"9781803093321","title":"Becoming Animal","description":"An unveiling of the presence of captivating figures and creatures throughout history.    In this gripping philosophical and cultural exploration, Teresa Präauer sets out to investigate figures of transformation, transmission, and translation—across languages, cultures, genres, media, species, and spaces. Hybrids, chimeras, monsters, and liminal creatures of all sorts inhabit these pages, as indeed they do the pages of the cultural archive from Antiquity and the Middle Ages to the present day: everything from the harpies, ape-men, and cynocephali that inhabit the edges of medieval maps and taxonomies to the Krampuses and Furries that roam through Alpine villages and convention centers today. Yet these chimeras are not aberrations; rather, they reveal an essential truth about culture and artistic expression.      What emerges in Becoming Animal is a kaleidoscopic image of culture as the constant probing of the limits of the sayable, as an unending process of attempting to capture in words and symbols that which cannot be pinned down.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307295125877,"sku":"9781803093321","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803093321_6b5d7834-1a23-40d4-915f-ad17ea280b64.jpg?v=1786026602"},{"product_id":"cooking-in-the-wrong-century","title":"Cooking in the Wrong Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn irresistibly witty satire about a dinner party where the foodie guests have a grand amount of taste but no social clue at all.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Clever, amusing and delightfully compact. To be consumed in one sitting, it pairs wonderfully with a glass or four of fizz.”  —\u003ci\u003e Daily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the hostess, food has always been about growing up. From the pancakes your grandmother made, dolloped with jam, to the salty glug of your very first oyster. Now, poised at the brink of midlife, the hostess prepares for a dinner party in her new apartment, desperate for the envy of her cultured friends. With a hunger for the finer things in life, she folds linen napkins into neat triangles, arranges wildflowers for the table and puts on a playlist that projects effortless cool.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut her composure begins to falter when her guests arrive drunk and late, downing bottles of her perfectly cooled wine and trailing water over the floor. Here comes the chain-smoking professor who never says the right thing, the husband glued to his smartphone, the wife who makes a secret pass at your boyfriend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs small talk and social preening give way to sexual tension and lost inhibitions, the hostess struggles to maintain control over an evening far beyond her wildest imaginings. Outrageously funny and keenly observed, this is the 1st novel by Austrian powerhouse Teresa Präauer to be translated into English, and a delectable feast of social satire for readers of \u003ci\u003ePerfection \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropologists\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487896281461,"sku":"9781805331780","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781805331780.jpg?v=1786355117"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-teresa-praauer.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}