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On My Aunt´s Shallow Grave White Roses Have Already Bloomed

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Description for On My Aunt´s Shallow Grave White Roses Have Already Bloomed paperback.
A collection of short stories by an acclaimed contemporary Greek writer, reminiscent of Lydia Davis and Jenny Offill This collection assembles sixteen of Maria Mitsora's short stories in what adds up to be a retrospective of the author's work, spanning forty years. Moving across the urban netherworld of Athens to imagined Latin American towns and science-fiction dystopias, Mitsora animates the alternatingly dark and revelatory aspects of the human psyche, depicting a world in which her protagonists are caught between reality and myth, predestination and chance, rationality and twisted dreams. Mitsora led a generation of writers whose ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300215762
SKU
9780300215762
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About Maria Mitsora
Maria Mitsora is the author of several short story collections, four novels, and a narrative autobiography. Jacob Moe translates from Modern Greek and Brazilian Portuguese.

Reviews for On My Aunt´s Shallow Grave White Roses Have Already Bloomed
Maria Mitsora's surreal short stories confront the gaping abyss of time and oblivion lurking in everyday encounters. Her meticulous vision of objects, words and desires remade for an ambiguous world is staged with a searing, primordial intensity, like that flash of light from a steel knife in Albert Camus' The Stranger. -Vangelis Calotychos, Brown University Words have froth, ... Read more

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