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Emil (Paperback)
Inga Gaile; Illustrated by Anna Zvaigzne; Translated by Kaija Straumanis
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R98
Discovery Miles 980
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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"Extraordinary and unforgettable characters" WORLD LITERATURE TODAY
"Rich and many layered . . . fascinating" CHRISTOPHER MOSELEY When
Baroness Valtraute von Bruegen's officer husband's body is severed
in two she is delighted to find that the lower half has been sewn
onto the upper body of the humble local Captain Ulste. She
conceives a child only to see the return of her husband in one
piece. What happens next is both indescribably funny and darkly
painful. A beautifully written Surrealist novel-cum-political
allegory, Flesh-Coloured Dominoes transports the reader between
18th-century Baltic gentry and the narrator's life in the modern
world. The connection between the two narratives gradually becomes
clear in a mesmerising fantasy of love, lust, and loss as Skijuns
creates a work of sublime art that is funny, moving, enlightening
and philosophical in equal measure. Translated from the Latvian by
Kaija Straumanis
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