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Titolo: Flesh-Coloured Dominoes
Condizione: Nuovo
EAN: 9781911350637
ISBN: 9781911350637
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Formato: Tascabile
Data di pubblicazione: 12/09/2019
Altezza: 198mm
Lunghezza: 128mm
Larghezza: 22mm
Peso: 240g
Autore: Zigmunds Skujins
Traducción: Kaija Straumanis
Contribuyente: Kaija Straumanis (Translated by)
Lingua: inglese
ISBN-10: 1911350633
Description:

"Extraordinary and unforgettable characters" WORLD LITERATURE TODAY

"Rich and many layered . . . fascinating" CHRISTOPHER MOSELEY

When Baroness Valtraute von Bruegen's officer husband's body is severed in two she is delighted to find that the lower half has been sewn onto the upper body of the humble local Captain Ulste. She conceives a child only to see the return of her husband in one piece. What happens next is both indescribably funny and darkly painful.

A beautifully written Surrealist novel-cum-political allegory, Flesh-Coloured Dominoes transports the reader between 18th-century Baltic gentry and the narrator's life in the modern world. The connection between the two narratives gradually becomes clear in a mesmerising fantasy of love, lust, and loss as Skijuns creates a work of sublime art that is funny, moving, enlightening and philosophical in equal measure.

Translated from the Latvian by Kaija Straumanis

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