Jagannath
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Feb 06, 2018
Language: eng
Format: E-Book
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781101973981
Copyright date: 2012
First sentence: It’s rare, almost unheard of, to encounter an author so extraordinarily gifted she appears to have sprung full-blown into the literary world, like Athena from the head of Zeus.
Description: "A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time. Welcome to the weird world of Karin Tidbeck, the visionary Swedish author of literary sci-fi, speculative fiction, and mind-bending fantasy who has captivated readers around the world. Originally published by the tiny press Cheeky Frawg--the passion project of Ann and Jeff VanderMeer--Jagannath has been celebrated by readers and critics alike, with rave reviews from major outlets and support from lauded peers like China Mie ville and even Ursula K. Le Guin herself. These are stories in which fairies haunt quiet towns, and an immortal being discovers the nature of time--stories in which anything is possible."--Amazon.com.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Elizabeth Hand; title: Beatrice; title: Some Letters for Ove Lindström; title: Miss Nyberg and I; title: Rebecka; title: Herr Cederberg; title: Who Is Arvid Pekon?; title: Brita’s Holiday Village; title: Reindeer Mountain; title: Cloudberry Jam; title: Pyret; title: Augusta Prima; title: Aunts; title: Jagannath; title: Afterword: Transposing Worlds