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Item Details
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AND OTHER STORIES
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| By: |
Georgi Gospodinov, Alexis Levitin (Trans), Magdalena Levy (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£14.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0810124327 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780810124325 |
| Publisher: |
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2007 |
| Series: |
Writings from an Unbound Europe S. |
| Pages: |
80 |
| Translated from: |
Bulgarian |
| Description: |
A collection of short stories, which includes a tongue-in-cheek crime/horror story or the Christmas story of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected epiphany or an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a puzzle box, and more. |
| Synopsis: |
Stories within stories, a few contemporary fables, a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges, a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-communist life in Eastern Europe - these are the elements that come together in a unique and surprising way in the wildly imaginative and endlessly engaging short stories of Georgi Gospodinov. Whether a tongue-in-cheek crime/horror story or the Christmas story of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected epiphany or an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a puzzle box, the work in this collection offers a kaleidoscopic experience of a writer whose style has been described as "anarchic, experimental" ("New Yorker") and "compulsively readable" ("New York Times"). Gospodinov's debut prose work "Natural Novel" was hailed as a "go-for-broke postmodern construction - a devilish jam of jump-cut narration, pop culture riffs, wholesale quotation, and Chinese-box authorship" ("Village Voice"). At once familiar and fantastic, his writing is high comedy, high seriousness, and of very high order. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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