And Other Stories (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Northwestern University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Writings from an Unbound Europe
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	July 2007
Authors:	Georgi Gospodinov
Translators:	Alexis Levitin • Magdalena Levy
Series editors:	Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Dimensions:	142 x 215 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
ISBN-13:	978-0-8101-2432-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General
LSN:	0-8101-2432-7
Barcode:	9780810124325

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