Moving Parts
by Magdalena Tulli
In this wildly inventive page-turner, a feckless narrator struggles against all odds to tell a story for which he is responsible, but which he neither controls nor understands. His characters multiply and go astray; his employer is asleep in a drunken stupor. The increasingly desperate narrator clambers over rooftops and through underground passages, watching helplessly as his characters reappear in different times and settings and start rival stories against his will. A story about the sadness of the world and of the inadequacy of language and storytelling to describe and understand it.
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English
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Author Biography
Magdalena Tulli's other novels include Dreams and Stones and Moving Parts (Archipelago Books). Dreams and Stones won Poland's Koscielski Foundation Prize in 1995, while Moving Parts was nominated for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Flaw has been short-listed for the 2007 Nike Prize, Poland's most prestigious literary award. Tulli also works as a translator and has translated the works of Proust and Calvino into Polish. She lives in Warsaw.
Description for Sales People
A stunning meditation on life and storytelling from one of Poland's most masterful contemporary authors. Nominated for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Will appeal greatly to fans of literary fiction, metafiction and the subversion of genres. Ideal for readers interested in contemporary Central European culture and the historical aftermath of WWII. Translated fiction is a growing trend in the UK after the success of writers such as Elena Ferrante.
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