--- product_id: 2484628 title: "AVA" price: "€ 29.65" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/2484628-ava store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # AVA **Price:** € 29.65 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** AVA - **How much does it cost?** € 29.65 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/2484628-ava) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description AVA [Maso, Carole, Maso, C] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. AVA Review: Read this novel - Consisting mostly of single line paragraphs, all separated by blank lines, this novel is not just one of the simplest, most pleasurable reads (not in little part because of the language of the piece, so often described at musical), but also one of the fullest. I could review it based solely on its handling of death or of travel or of life or of creativity or of appropriation or of meaning or of so on, each filling up paragraphs, but that would spoil the book. It's something to be read, not read about. Review: Experimental novel. Succeeds in the realm of literary fiction. - Experimental novel. It captures the fleeting qualities of thought and sensation from the point of view of a woman who is trying to celebrate a life well-lived. Definitely a feminist novel in the way that it mentions feminist icons and tries to subvert patriarchal norms. Not intended for a reader who is uninterested in digging deeper. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,686,606 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3,217 in Biographical & Autofiction #17,843 in Literary Fiction (Books) #174,735 in Romance (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars (18) | | Dimensions | 5.98 x 0.85 x 9.16 inches | | ISBN-10 | 1564780740 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1564780744 | | Item Weight | 13.6 ounces | | Language | English | | Part of series | Dalkey Archive Essentials | | Print length | 220 pages | | Publication date | May 1, 2002 | | Publisher | Dalkey Archive Press | ## Images ![AVA - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61S01tBBBCL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read this novel *by T***Y on November 17, 2012* Consisting mostly of single line paragraphs, all separated by blank lines, this novel is not just one of the simplest, most pleasurable reads (not in little part because of the language of the piece, so often described at musical), but also one of the fullest. I could review it based solely on its handling of death or of travel or of life or of creativity or of appropriation or of meaning or of so on, each filling up paragraphs, but that would spoil the book. It's something to be read, not read about. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Experimental novel. Succeeds in the realm of literary fiction. *by V***T on January 12, 2018* Experimental novel. It captures the fleeting qualities of thought and sensation from the point of view of a woman who is trying to celebrate a life well-lived. Definitely a feminist novel in the way that it mentions feminist icons and tries to subvert patriarchal norms. Not intended for a reader who is uninterested in digging deeper. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Always challenging, occasionally enjoyable, ultimately rewarding *by A***. on November 25, 2012* I approached reading this book obligatorily-- I'm a grad student (studying literature) and it's on my comps list. If I had been reading this for pleasure / were not obliged to see this thing through, I probably would have put it down after the first thirty pages or so. As familiar as I am with the concepts of the nonlinear, the fragmented, the experimental, the literary collage (whatever you want to call it), the beginning of this for me was utterly incomprehensible. It reads like an array of random thoughts spat out by a vague / hazy / initially unknowable narrator who is--understandably--not in her right mind. While I always recognized the inherent power in the concept, in the thought that I was inside a woman's head during the last day of her preempted life, I found myself wishing we were privy to the last month or so and that this final crazy day were only a 10-page addendum at the book's end. As loathe as I am to admit it / as ready as I was to hate this novel (although I am still reluctant to use the "N" word in conjunction with it), meaning does in fact begin to accumulate. In a way, this is like a ridiculous detective story, as you are faced with the sometimes infuriating but ultimately rewarding task of figuring out who the hell this Ava woman is. The conclusion I have come to is that, if this story were told in any other style / any other format, I would really hate her. Ava is capricious, self-destructive, frustrating, selfish, unfaithful, and too cosmopolitan for her own good. She is the kind of existential-dilemma, woe-is-me, why-can't-I-find-true-happiness? character who, under any other circumstances, would be entirely loathsome. But the knowledge of the fact that she is doomed is somehow redemptive; this makes her more sympathetic than she could otherwise ever (for me, at least) be, which I suppose is a prime example of form meeting function. [And I should probably also admit that my mom died of a rare form of blood cancer long before she was ready to say goodbye, so on an emotional / gotcha level, this had me from hello.] It should also be noted, however, that if you are not ridiculously well read, you will often be puzzled by what Ava--a professor of comparative literature--is talking about. Just going from memory, before you begin reading this book you should be familiar with the works of Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, Milan Kundera, Goethe, Gabriel Garcia Lorca, Samuel Beckett, William Blake, Proust, Umberto Ecco, Ezra pound, Hemingway, Faulkner, Helene Cixous, and Primo Levi, just to name a few. Of course you will get the gist even without this contextual understanding, but the depth of what Maso is saying, unfortunately (I think), necessitates a whole other body of prerequisite knowledge. She's obviously talking to those who are in the comp-lit club and excluding those (such as non-grad students) who are not. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.hr/products/2484628-ava](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/2484628-ava) --- *Product available on Desertcart Croatia* *Store origin: HR* *Last updated: 2026-05-18*