The Hearing Test

Resumen del libro

A young woman reorients her relationship to the world in the wake of sudden deafness in this mesmerizing debut novel for readers of Rachel Cusk, Clarice Lispector, and Fleur JaeggyWhen the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, but is offered no explanation for its cause. As the spectre of total deafness looms, she keeps a record of her year a score of estrangement and enchantment, of luck and loneliness, of the chance occurrences to which she becomes attuned while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog. Through a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters with neighbours, an ex-lover, doctors, strangers, family members, faraway friends, and with the lives and works of artists, filmmakers, musicians, and philosophers making meaning becomes a form of consolation and curiosity, a form of survival.

At once a rumination on silence and a novel on seeing, The Hearing Test is a work of vitalizing intellect and playfulness which marks the arrival of a major new literary writer with a rare command of form, compression, and intent.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Eliza Barry Callahan x{0026}lt;/strong (Nueva York, 1995) es escritora, cineasta, música y artista visual. Estudió artes visuales, historia del arte y poesía en la Universidad de Columbia, donde en 2022 obtuvo un máster en escritura. Su trabajo ha aparecido publicado en medios como x{0026}lt;em The Paris Reviewx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em BOMB Magazinex{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em The Believerx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em Thex{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;em Brooklyn Railx{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em Frieze x{0026}lt;/em y x{0026}lt;em The Driftx{0026}lt;/em , entre otros. Junto a Jack Staffen, con quien forma el dúo musical Purr, escribe, interpreta y edita música a través del sello ANTI- Records, con sede en Los Ángeles. Su filmografía incluye los cortometrajes x{0026}lt;em Bay of Cadiz x{0026}lt;/em (2022), x{0026}lt;em Thex{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;em Non-Actor x{0026}lt;/em (2024) y x{0026}lt;em BUSTx{0026}lt;/em , estrenado en Sundance en 2024. Es profesora en la Universidad de Columbia y miembro de la New York Foundation for the Arts. x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Lax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em prueba de audiciónx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , finalista del Premio Young Lions de la Biblioteca de Nueva York, es su primera novela.x{0026}lt;/p