Kingdom of the young
Subtitle: fiction with a nonfiction coda
By: Edie Meidav
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781941411414
Subjects: American Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: ""Ambitious, original, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the crônicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino."--Carolyn Cooke, author of Daughters of the Revolution The dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure, work, love, absolution, better chances elsewhere. In a symphonic stream of consciousness, a fanatical child army loses faith in its commander as he ages unforgivably into his thirties. A woman possessed with wanderlust and a small inheritance seeks love among the cave-dwelling Roma in Granada. Traumatized war veterans run local rackets; smarmy bureaucrats rise through the ranks of repressive regimes; civilians attempt to escape the stranglehold of life under dictatorships. From the honeycombed caves outside the Alhambra to the streets of Havana, from hospital wards to quinceanera parties, these stories-along with the collection's illuminating nonfiction coda-testify to Meidav's vast imaginative range. Edie Meidav is the author of three novels-The Far Field, Crawl Space, and Lola, California. Her honors include a Lannan Literary Award, the Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman, the Bard Fiction Prize, a Whiting Award, and a Howard Fellowship. She teaches in the University of Massachusetts MFA program and lives in Amherst"--

""Who knows what youth is really looking for?" Meidav asks in the nonfiction coda to this dazzling story collection. The dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure, work, love, absolution, better chances elsewhere. In surreal fables, dream-spun travelogues, conflicted confessionals and more, Meidav creates a revelatory and wholly original world in sparkling, unforgettable prose"--
Table of contents: title: Kingdom of the young --; title: Romance, or, Blind in Granada --; title: The King of Bubbles --; title: The Buddha of the Vedado --; title: Quinceañera --; title: Beef --; title: Catullus --; title: I never had any problem with you --; title: The golden rule, or, I am only trying to do the right thing --; title: Modern parables. #1, Theft --; title: Dog''s journey --; title: Koi --; title: Talent --; title: The Christian girl --; title: Questions of travel --; title: Daughter of California.