The Torturer's Wife

Author of the acclaimed story collection Whose Song?, award-winning Thomas Glave is known for his stylistic brio and courageous explorations into the heavily mined territories of race and sexuality. Here he expands and deepens his lyrical experimentation in stories that focus—explicitly and allegorically—on the horrors of dictatorships, war, anti-gay violence, the weight of traumatized memory, secret fetishes, erotic longing, desire and intimacy.

THOMAS GLAVE is an O. Henry award-winning author and was named a Village Voice Writer on the Verge in 2001. He is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, Words to Our Now:Imagination and Dissent (winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction”), and editor of Our Caribbean: A show more Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles. He is the 2008-2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Praise for Thomas Glave:

"GLAVE'S DISRUPTION OF FORM IS A POWERFUL METAPHOR FOR THE SEXUAL, RACIAL AND GEOPOLITICAL DISJUNCTIONS THE STORIES IN WHOSE SONG? EXPLORE . . . GLAVE IS A GIFTED STYLIST . . . BLESSEDWITH AMBITION, HIS OWN VOICE AND AN IMPRESSIVE WILLINGNESS TO DISSECT HOW INDIVIDUALS ACTUALLY THINK AND BEHAVE."
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"THOMAS GLAVE WALKS THE PATH OF SUCH GREATS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AS RICHARD WRIGHT AND JAMES BALDWIN . . . HE CUTS TO THE BONE OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE BLACK IN AMERICA, WHITE IN AMERICA, GAY IN AMERICA, AND HUMAN IN THE WORLD AT LARGE."
—GLORIA NAYLOR

"WHAT A WRITER! WHAT A BOOK! GLAVE IS A BRILLIANT WRITER OF STARTLINGLY FRESH PROSE . . . HIS STORIES ARE INTRICATE TAPESTRIES OF LIFE RENDERED THROUGH A TRIUMPHANT ACT OF THE IMAGINATION."
—CLARENCE MAJOR show less