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A game between a woman's father and husband simmers and boils into scalding danger; a daughter creates an elaborate feast for her grieving mother; a solar eclipse burns emotions and deceit out into the open; a girl flees across a desert in the pitch-black night. In... Read More
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Violence and desire shatter the smooth surface of the everyday in this exceptional collection of blackly comic short stories.

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A game between a woman's father and husband simmers and boils into scalding danger; a daughter creates an elaborate feast for her grieving mother; a solar eclipse burns emotions and deceit out into the open; a girl flees across a desert in the pitch-black night. In these stories of suffocating atmosphere, the bland restraint of ordinary life careers into violence and darkness; they are hand grenades thrown at mundanity and the status quo.

Foregrounding the voices and experiences of women and children and veering from claustrophobic suburbia to untamed nature and its great vistas of desert and sky, hungry for what focuses on the terror of normality, prising back its veneer of respectability to reveal the hostility and menace seething beneath.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781914198687

Publisher: Daunt Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 June 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Daunt Books

Contributors:

  • Translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 250g

Pages: 288

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