Short story books set in Slovakia (2)
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The Night Circus and Other Stories by Uršuľa Kovalyk EN
SlovakiaDescription:
Blending the naturalistic and the fabulistic, these elusive, delicate stories fold fable and fairy tale into the everyday, domestic settings of kitchen, garden, car. Women love, and lose, strange creatures they find by the garden gate; dream dogs are liberated from the icy prison of a fridge; bathrooms bloom into rainforests that souls can lose themselves in forever. Seemingly quotidian routines and unremarkable lives are pierced by Kovalyk's precise, sensual prose, to reveal the magic lurking just beneath the surface of the daily skin of existence.
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The Book of Bratislava A City in Short Fiction by Radoslav Passia EN
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A secret policeman investigates a library for stocking anti government literature, only to find himself applying for a library card... A man’s dreams are invaded by a dark, unsettling figure, the ghost of a thug who once menaced the neighbourhood… The manager of a theatre bar resorts to fending off violent customers with even more violent security guards… The stories in this anthology reflect the Slovak capital’s many changing incarnations: from a hopeful city newly liberated from the Nazis; to an outpost of communist Czechoslovakia crawling with informants; to the capital of a new, democratic... continue
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