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Praise for Call Me ZebraFinalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award An Amazon Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Bestseller Named a Best Book by:Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Boston Globe, Fodor's, Fast Company, Refinery29,Nylon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, The Millions, Electric Literature, Bitch, Hello Giggles, Literary Hub, Shondaland, Bustle, Brit & Co., Vol. 1 Brooklyn,Read It Forward,Entropy Magazine,Chicago Review of Books, iBooks and Publishers Weekly "Ferociously intelligent...With intricacy and humor, Van der Vliet Oloomi relays Zebra's brainy, benighted struggles as a tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges.”—The New York Times Book Review "In this crackling novel, a bookish Iranian in exile retraces the journey she took with her father, and finds love along the way." —The New York Times Book Review, Paperback Row "Splendidly eccentric...Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you.” —Wall Street Journal "If you don’t know this name yet, you should: Van der Vliet Oloomi, a National Book Award '5 Under 35' honoree, returns with this absurdist, unwieldy, and bracingly intelligent story." —Entertainment Weekly "A sexy, complicated affair...geopolitically savvy." —Elle "In a story that might otherwise be self-serious, Van der Vliet Oloomi resists the standard redemption arc, infusing her protagonist with a darkly comic neuroticism."—The New Yorker "Acerbic wit and a love of literature color this picaresque novel...By turns, hilarious and poignant, painting a magnetic portrait of a young woman you can't help but want to know more about." —Harper's Bazaar "Hop on board with anarchist, atheist, and autodidact Zebra as she bounds on her hilarious and frenetic adventure through literature and across the globe, always in search of deeper connection." —Fodor's "Not many authors are compared to Borges, Cervantes, and Kathy Acker all in one breath, but that is exactly what we're dealing with here: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is a twisted, twisty genius, whose latest novel is a wild, trippy ride across countries…[Zebra] is in possession of an inimitable…voice, but it’s all the better to help her—and us—navigate the chaos of this collapsing world." —Nylon “What Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts did for gender and sexuality, Call Me Zebra does for the experience of exile, deftly threading the narrative with theory while also using theory to pull the reader in. Though Call Me Zebra happens to be fiction, both books are stuffed with complex ideas made irresistible and lyric…Van der Vliet Oloomi sets herself the tall task of writing a precocious narrator, a self-proclaimed ‘expert connoisseur of literature,’ a narrative path that’s littered with prospective pitfalls. In less capable hands, this could easily be annoying or unconvincing, but Zebra is unvaryingly brilliant and deadpan funny…One of the greatest components of Call Me Zebra is how funny it is…Call Me Zebra also features quietly devastating moments when Zebra’s emotional defenses fall away, when we are reminded that because of tyranny, war, and poverty, she has been left entirely alone to process her family’s eradication from the earth… Zebra is the smartest narrator you will encounter this year.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “[Van der Vliet Oloomi] is one of a new breed of erudite, conceptually ambitious authors emerging in an industry long dominated by accessible, character-driven realism…In Call Me Zebra [she] comes into her own…channel[ing] Friedrich Nietzsche, Kathy Acker, Maurice Blanchot and dozens more past masters to conjure a literary landscape of exile where the great bodies of work come and go...Wildly innovative...The all-in author of Zebra engages her mind, body, and soul.”—San Francisco Chronicle "Bibi Abbas Abbas Hosseini, the protagonist of Call Me Zebra, is probably more similar to Don Quixote and Ignatius Reilly of A Confederacy of Dunces than she is to you and I. Partly, that’s because she stems from a family that prizes knowledge of literature above all other practical skills. And it’s partly because her life is a picaresque adventure on par with some of the greats in literature, weaving in dark family tragedy (she’s orphaned by the time she’s 23) with international globetrotting and grand acts of romantic pursuit. Call Me Zebra is a novel in the best sense of the word. It’s filtered entirely through an idiosyncratic mind, who thinks in sentences that are sharp and smart and utterly ridiculous." —Refinery29 "This is a miss your stop on the subway and ignore your to-do list kind of book.” —The Millions"It’s difficult to pull off both depth and wit, but Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi masters both in Call Me Zebra." —Bitch "One of the most original stories we’ve read in a long time...A delight for the true bibliophile." —Hello Giggles "Brilliant and heart-wrenching...In a lyric, funny, and irresistible manner, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi distills the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Miguel de Cervantes, and an army of other great writers and thinkers through the mind and experience of Zebra, a strong-willed exile from Iran fighting to make sense of her family history of displacement and anguish." —Literary Hub "For every human whose first love in life will always be literature...A beautiful depiction of first love, legacy, and our desire to feel connected to where (and who) we come from." —Shondaland"Oloomi wears her weighty intellectual bona fides lightly...Filled with literature, art and sex, Call Me Zebra is rambling and picaresque as quirky and funny as its rambunctious narrator. Its many digressions into philosophy and history are not obstacles--they are stepping-stones...With a healthy dose of literary allusions and excerpts, Call Me Zebra is a vibrant novel of a young woman's odyssey into her family's legacy of exile and erudition." —Shelf Awareness "When analyzed next to W.E.B. DuBois’s concept of double consciousness—the state of 'always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity'—Van der Vliet Oloomi’s concept of multiple selves strikes uncannily similar chords...Pairing perspicacious absurdity with a main character who confronts her multiple selves—or consciousnesses—Van der Vliet Oloomi unearths spectacularly astute and poignant truths of life as 'other' in the global North...A striking picture of what it is like to live in exile, to be cast as an outsider in all spaces where life is possible...Satire and humor provide Van der Vliet Oloomi a sharp avenue to uncovering social critique...In following Zebra’s journey to confront the embodiment of exile’s fractured consciousness and her refusal to dissolve into Western social codes, Van der Vliet Oloomi’s humor and literary power bring a fresh, clear, and unapologetic voice to the experience of living as an other in the global North while simultaneously shedding light on exile’s true absurdity: that society remains apathetic toward the exiled." —Ploughshares "Bibi Abbas Abbas Hosseini, the woman at the heart of Call Me Zebra, is its strength; unique, brilliant, introspective, and funny, her philosophical take on life is bound to inspire." —Brit & Co. "A unique book with a unique young voice—adventurous, emotional, absurd, and very bookish." —Omnivoracious "A love letter to literature, as well as a thoughtful meditation on family and love." —Read It Forward "The opening sentence of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude might be my favorite first line of all time. But Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi‘s second novel, Call Me Zebra, gives Márquez a run for his money." —Chicago Review of Books “A darkly, funny novel…[and] bombastic homage to the metacriticism of Borges, the Romantic absurdity of Cervantes, and the punk-rock autofictions of Kathy Acker…[Call Me Zebra] is a brilliant, demented, and bizarro book that demands and rewards all the attention a reader might dare to give it.”—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) “Oloomi’s rich and delightful novel… crackles throughout with wit and absurdity… [Call Me Zebra] is a sharp and genuinely fun picaresque, employing humor and poignancy side-by-side to tell an original and memorable story.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "This fierce meditation, a heady review of literature and philosophy as well as a love story, is a tour de force from the author of Fra Keeler that many will read and reread."—Library Journal"An arresting exploration of grief alongside a powder keg of a romance."—Booklist "Zebra is exile as education, history as passion, life as literature, and literature as death." —Tom McCarthy, author of the Man Booker Prize-finalist Satin Island and Remainder "A penniless orphaned refugee, Zebra knows she can count on two things: literature and death. She builds a fortress out of both, surviving on fury, on memories and manifestos, until life begins to break through. Can Zebra handle life? Can literature handle Zebra? Reader, go find out! Call Me Zebra is like nothing else I've read, geo-political and bookish and sexy, quite refreshingly nuts and yet a ripping good read. Also, there's a stolen bird! I'd say I couldn't put it down, but Zebra would never approve a cliche, so I'll pay it a compliment she might actually accept: this book metabolized me." —Danielle Dutton, author of Margaret the First "There’s something really radical about this epic and ecstatic quest. It’s in the tradition of Cervantes’ ingenious nobleman, but also deeply in conversation with Borges’s Pierre Menard and Kathy Acker’s own Don Quixote. The young female narrator of Call Me Zebra luxuriates in the tradition of Enrique Vila-Matas’s literary sickness, or Kafka writing that he is made entirely of literature. A hilarious picaresque, perverse and voracious." —Kate Zambreno, author of Heroines and Green Girl “Call Me Zebra is a book about everything—exile, love, loss, literary theory, the insouciance of time, the history of Iran, funerary rites, and the idiosyncrasies and intricacies of the mind. In the main character, Zebra, we receive ‘a scribe of the future,’ one who can synthesize great swathes of literature, history, and politics to produce insights that transcend categorization, insights that illuminate existence, its ascending flights and horrors. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, the author of Call Me Zebra, has written a marvelous book that is at once contemporary, in conversation with fiction writers such as Valeria Luiselli and Rachel Kushner, and simultaneously reaches back to the eccentric talkers and characters in the work of Vladimir Nabokov and Italo Svevo. Call Me Zebra risks the grand, the large, the sublime as a means of answering the questions we speak only to ourselves when we think no one is listening.” —Roger Reeves, author of King Me “This novel is not about a zebra but about a whole sharp, amazing, malicious and wicked zoo. Please enjoy responsibly.” —Quim Monzó, author of A Thousand Morons and supporting character in the novel Call Me Zebra
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About the Author
AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI is the author of two books. She was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and is the recipient of a Whiting Award. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, Guernica, BOMB, and other places.
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Product details
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Mariner Books; Reprint edition (February 5, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1328505863
ISBN-13: 978-1328505866
Product Dimensions:
5.3 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.2 out of 5 stars
22 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#697,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I was drawn to this book, I admit, because it was so highly anticipated among the most informed voices of literature. I have grown wary of expert opinions of any kind, to be honest, so I began the book, I suppose, with some skepticism that it would meet the ‘most anticipated’ status it had achieved.And I was wrong and the experts were right. This is a remarkable book. The prose is witty and the scenes and characters are developed to balanced perfection. More than anything else, however, it’s hilarious.When our protagonist, Zebra, is picked up at the Barcelona airport by a friend of a friend she hasn’t met, he is holding a sign that says: “Here to reclaim Jose Emilio Morale’s friend.†Instead of offering a friendly ‘hi, how are you, thanks for picking me up,’ our obsessed and behaviorally neurotic Zebra immediately demands to know if he had ever possessed her before, as the precise wording of the sign literally implies. He is Ludo Bembo, the self-exiled Italian philologist, who ultimately relents to her insistent demand by noting, “It is only a sign.†The explanation, not surprisingly, fell on deaf ears because nothing is only anything to Zebra at that time.It admittedly reminded me of a retired English teacher I knew that was moved off her foundation whenever anyone used the phrase “very unique.†If humor is the release of discomfort, this kind of obsessive policing of language is the literary equivalent of slipping on a banana peel.I bring that up, in part, because this is a book that could easily intimidate the reader if you let it. I don’t think, however, you need to let it, and I am convinced that the author would be greatly disappointed if you did. The author is obviously smart and capable, but the book shows no pretense of aspiration to be a literati. She wants to make you think, not back down.The protagonist is an exile/immigrant/refugee, of course, and both the complexity of the book and the rich humor comes from her coming of age, intellectually and emotionally, in an unfamiliar and inhospitable world, having lost all of her family and personal identity to time and political tragedy.True to her ancestral roots, she turns to literature, and the work of exiled poets and writers, in particular, as both a vehicle of escape and a source of pre-packaged judgment. And since much of her personal journey is navigated through the lens and the physical geography of literature and the geo-political history of civil war and exile in Europe and the Middle East, the narrative is filled with a bounty of references on both fronts.Do not, however, be afraid of the literary references. You don’t need any expertise in Nietzsche or Dante to enjoy the narrative any more than you need an expertise in cars to enjoy a pleasant ride in the countryside.The coming of age I refer to, which would be more appropriately called the coming of self, is a process of awareness followed by accumulation. At the peak of the process we are likely to be filled to overflowing with angst, disillusionment, and, perhaps, self-pity, if not self-loathing. Ultimately, however, we find a way to sort it all out and not to discharge our burden, but to clean things up enough to make room for the burdens of others.That sorting, prioritizing, and contextualizing of her personal and ancestral burden is the heart of the storyline. It is a journey of self-discovery and the reconciliation of identity that we all must take. While told in the rich context of literature and art, it is, therefore, the most common story of all. It is, however, the rich and unique context that allows this story to stand out; to be both zany and personal at the same time.The key, I think, is to let the story come to you and not to spend too much time trying to digest and consider each and every literary reference. I was reminded of those little rubber balls that seem to accelerate each time they bounce. They’re much easier to catch if you wait until the end of each bounce to reach for them.Which is why, I suggest, if you are considering this book you just dive in and give it a go. If this book is not a national bestseller it will be because of intimidation, not the quality of the story or the prose. You won’t find much better.The best news is that, in my own experience (I am now a sexagenarian), the first peak of self-awareness typically proves to be a foothill. Life is a range, not a mountain. So perhaps we shall have the benefit of scaling yet another peak of self-discovery with Zebra and her literary burden in the future. I truly look forward to it.
First rate writing, but a hard story to like. The protagonist is so confrontational and conflicting that it is hard to sympathise with her. She can't give her love nor let go of her dead father. All the literary references, though impressive, are difficult to swallow. Every interaction invokes quotations from Camus or Sartre or Neruda... C'mon, no one has that kind of repertoire. You can't help but want her to find relief but there is never any joy at finding it. Even her last grasp at peace and lasting love is doomed to fail. But in spite of the frustration I couldn't let it go. This is a very good book, but it holds few satisfactions.
This was recommended to me,citing wish I remember by who so I could kick them. Zebra is a narcissist, sullen character. The author uses verbose language to get simple points across. I guess this was just not for me.
One of the worst books I have ever read!
Picture a funny yet serious, nerdy yet cool, meaningful and profound yet irreverent and eccentric novel (no, it’s not Don Quixote). You can’t? Well, you definitively need to read this. What a fantastic book! The protagonist, Zebra, will simultaneously intrigue you, entertain you, get on your nerves, annoy you, make you burst out laughing aloud. And in the process she will also teach you a lot about what literature is all about. But above all, she’ll give you some very good insights into the incoherent, confused, frenetic world we live in, and how to go about navigating its uncharted waters. Zebra is the kind of friend you always wished you had. The one who inspires you, who you get into troubles with, who teaches you not to take absolutely anything for granted. Upon finishing the book, you’ll find yourself wondering why Zebra’s number is not in your contact list!
It was hard to unpack. On the same page one went form nihilism to the plurality of the self. The main character, I even forgot her name, was on the verge of a mental breakdown throughout the book so this makes sense but the reader never grows to care for her. We read heavy stuff in our book club from the cement garden to The Road and only 3 out of five finished the book. This rarely, almost never happens. On a literary level it has value but hard to get through even for people who read a lot.
This was clearly written to impress literary critics and MFA professors. Convoluted and depressing. Not a book I would recommend for a book club.
Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is a beautiful, heartbreaking story of exile, loss, love, and ultimately self. Zebra comes from a long line of scholars whose lives are literally literature. They are born and raised with literature, eat and sleep literature, and speak in literature. Zebra and her parents set off on a tragic journey fleeing the government in Tehran, and her father and her end up in NYC a while later. After her father passes Zebra sets off on a trip to retrace their footsteps back home, her first stop being Barcelona where she meets a man names Ludo and embarks on a twisty turny love affair. (I realize that this is a very simplified summary, Zebra’s story is so much deeper than that).The novel is so beautiful, and so, so, SO smart. Zebra makes you laugh and cry, infuriates you, drives you bonkers, and makes you want to hug her tight and never let go. I personally related to many of the emotions and deep feelings that Zebra evokes, having been an immigrant in different countries for most of my life. And also because of her love of bringing literature into literally every thought. I loved how the story was written, in a stream of consciousness style. Instead of providing the reader with a set background of imagery, we get to imagine our own through Zebra’s often cluttered mind. It sometimes works as a puzzle or a maze, and you get frustrated, and then laugh because you know your own mind works in a similar fashion.I now need to go and read Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s first book because I absolutely loved this one!
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