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Knife Party at the Hotel Europa (Paperback)
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Loot Price R402
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Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction, New
Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic
Fiction AwardOne of Canada's literary treasures, Mark Anthony
Jarman returns with a book of moving and often funny tales of a
man's quest for himself. A.S. Byatt says that his writing is
"extraordinary, his stories gripping," and in this gorgeous new
collection, Jarman delivers something new once again. In Knife
Party at the Hotel Europa, Jarman writes about losing and finding
love, marriage and melancholy, the dislocation and redemptive power
of travel in Italy's sensual summer. A man travels to Italy to
escape the memory of love lost, and a marriage ended. He passes
through sun-drenched landscapes of cliffs and seaside paradises,
while the corpses of refugees wash up on the beach; he parties with
the young and beautiful Italians he meets on the train while a man
bleeds to death in the hallway. A teenage thief prowls the roof of
the tourist hotel at night; an embassy is bombed; holy statues come
alive to roam in a gang stealing used restaurant grease. He suffers
the acute loneliness of one who has abandoned and been abandoned,
and in this exquisite suffering, he finds how beautiful this life
can be. In vivid, sensuous prose, Jarman's stories circle and
overlap in surprising, weird, and wonderful ways. Tangents turn out
to be crucial, allusions are powerful.
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