Descripción
From the author of The Singularity, a saga of one girl's resistance and exile in the stars and soil of galactic empire
Seventeen-year-old Milde is from the Outskirts, a place beyond the mountains where the dirt is corpse-rich, where mothers and daughters make their living banished from society--without rights, access to care, or legal status. But Milde refuses to accept the order of things, so one day, together with some friends, she throws Molotov cocktails at the urban planning office in the city.
When Milde is framed as the instigator of the riot, she is arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and eventually presented with a final choice: to be executed publicly or to be launched into space, into a black hole called the Mass, for an experiment. Milde chooses the Mass--opting to face its fathomless depth and loneliness rather than hurt the morale of her weary allies back home.
Event Horizon is an exquisite existential novel, dark as deep space, woven with reflection on oppression, solidarity, trauma, and loss. With a completely unique voice, Balsam Karam writes about the swirl of hope and despair in the lives of the marginalized and a young woman's unwavering belief in a better world.
Author: Balsam Karam
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: 03/31/2026
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781558613546
ISBN10: 1558613544
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Space Exploration
- Fiction | World Literature | Sweden
- Fiction | Women
About the Author
Balsam Karam (b. 1983) is of Kurdish ancestry and has lived in Sweden since she was a young child. She is an author, librarian, and university lecturer, and made her literary debut in 2018 with the critically acclaimed Event Horizon, which was shortlisted for the Katapult Prize. Her second novel, The Singularity, was published in Sweden in 2021 and was shortlisted for the August Prize.
Saskia Vogel is the author of Permission and the translator of over twenty Swedish-language books. She was awarded the Berlin Senate Endowment for Non-German Literature and was a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize. From Los Angeles, she now lives in Berlin.