We have the full spoilers for the December 2020 Boxwalla Book Box!
It’s time for a little peek inside the December Book Box which is filled with stories that you can curl up with this winter. And an adorable mini calendar (with a stand- not pictured) to welcome the New Year.
Each box includes:
This December we showcase two novels, that even while dealing with difficult issues, are just SO engaging and difficult to put down. You just read and read and read.
The two wonderful writers we’ve chosen are : Vasily Grossman (Ukraine/Russia) & Fr
an Ross (U.S.A), along with the perfect bookish gift to welcome the New Year from Obvious State. Each December Book Box will contain:
- Vasily Grossman’s masterpiece Life and Fate ($24.95)
- Fran Ross’s overlooked classic Oreo ($14.95)
- A literary themed mini desk Calendar by Obvious State ($12)
Cost: $29.95;
Retail Value : $51.90
Closer look:
Mini Calendar by Obvious State
To welcome the new year, a new year filled with a bit more hope & light, we have included in the December Book Box, a thoughtfully designed literary themed calendar from the wonderful folks @obviousstate.
This calendar is a mini desktop calendar that comes with this cute little wooden stand. Each month has its own illustrated quote, from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Bronte, Pablo Neruda, L.M. Montgomery, Oscar Wilde & more! To inspire you each time you look at it. 😍
A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City
Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, and mixing standard English, black vernacular, and Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb. Oreo, our young hero, navigates the labyrinth of sound studios and brothels and subway tunnels in Manhattan, seeking to claim her birthright while unwittingly experiencing and triggering a mythic journey of self-discovery like no other.
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century.
Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman fashions an immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting a time of almost unimaginable horror and even stranger hope.
Life and Fate juxtaposes bedrooms and snipers’ nests, scientific laboratories and the Gulag, taking us deep into the hearts and minds of characters ranging from a boy on his way to the gas chambers to Hitler and Stalin themselves.
This novel of unsparing realism and visionary moral intensity is one of the supreme achievements of modern Russian literature.
What do you think of this month’s Boxwalla Book Box spoilers?
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