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Xyzt (Paperback)
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Xyzt (Paperback)
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Genre-defying fiction that accelerates "cross-cultural dialogue"
into a kaleidoscopic rush of sensory estrangements, fairy tales,
and alien encounters. "There's really no difference between us and
them, so we're told...." Based on the author's experiences of
living as an American in Iran, Kristen Alvanson's XYZT is a wildly
imaginative dramatization of the idea of a "dialogue of
civilizations" and its potentially outlandish ramifications. As
part of an advanced technological test program, volunteers are
shuttled back and forth between the US and Iran, hidden from the
watchful eyes of immigration police and state bureaucracies. Each
is given a single opportunity to be received by a local host and to
have a brief authentic experience of what it means to live as
"them" before being transported back home. But far from heralding
the bliss of mutual recognition, the experiment unleashes a series
of displacements so disorienting that the fabric of reality begins
to fray. Ordinary people become entangled in extraordinary
situations, and everyday life bleeds into mythological encounters,
alternate universes and dark psychedelic journeys in alien lands
where the real and the imaginary are indistinguishable. A treasury
of tales told from multiple perspectives and in a multiplicity of
styles, XYZT is an audacious cross-genre experiment, a firsthand
memoir of what it means to see what "they" see, and a
science-fictional, nonstandard engagement with anthropology in
which cross-cultural encounters take on all the unpredictable
features of a contemporary fairy tale.
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