Lucia's eyes and other stories
By: Marina Sonkina
Edition: First edition.
Series: Prose series -- 88
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781550713343
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Marina Sonkina's stories give us unexpected characters in surreal situations presented with unflinching verisimilitude in prose that is at once forceful, lyrical and filled with scepticism. This is not the stuff of European fiction, nor of the multicultural mainstream in North American post-20th century writing. This is more like Mavis Gallant in reverse, a shrewdly observant fictive sensibility self-transplanted to the New World from the old.
Table of contents: title: The eyes of Santa Lucia; title: Runic alphabet; title: Tractorina's travels; title: Carmelita; title: Christmas tango; title: Angels ascending, angels descending.