num_pages: 240
description: Is what you see all there is? Look again. Playful frightening even shocking  the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion and reality . This is a writer at the height of his power making the reader think making them laugh and sometimes making them want to look away while holding their gaze. Stories here are set in London in Byzantium in the ghetto in the Andes in a printer's shop in Spain. The characters include a murderer a writer a detective a man in a cave a man in a mirror two little boys a prison door and the author himself. There are twenty-three stories in all. Each one will make you wonder if what you see in the world is all there is...
language: English
title: Prayer for the Living
publisher: Head of Zeus