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And Other Stories (Paperback)
Georgi Gospodinov; Translated by Alexis Levitin, Magdalena Levy; Series edited by Andrew Baruch Wachtel
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R470
Discovery Miles 4 700
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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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And Other Stories (Hardcover)
Georgi Gospodinov; Translated by Alexis Levitin, Magdalena Levy; Edited by Andrew Baruch Wachtel
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R1,456
R1,329
Discovery Miles 13 290
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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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