Jerusalem ablaze
Subtitle: stories of love and other obsessions
By: Orlando Ortega-Medina
Publisher: Cloud Lodge Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780995465701; 9781526202536
Subjects: Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Fiction
Description: In Jerusalem's Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon's windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young protege watches his master's corpse burn, with bitter thoughts blazing in his mind. Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions collects thirteen eclectic works of dark fiction, taking the reader from Los Angeles to the eastern townships of Quebec, and from Tokyo to Jerusalem. Ortega-Medina's characters are flawed, broken individuals, trying their best to make sense of their lives as they struggle with sexuality, death, obsession, and religion. Sometimes bleak, occasionally violent, and often possessed of a dark humour, this major debut explores the imperfections of life and the unpredictability of death.
Notes: Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2017.
Table of contents: title: Torture by Roses; title: Eyesore in the Ginza; title: After the Storm; title: The Shovelist; title: Tiger at Beaufort Point; title: Cactuses; title: Invitation to the Dominant Culture; title: Love at Masada; title: And a Little Child Shall Lead Them; title: Star Party; title: An Israel State of Mind, Part 1; title: An Israel State of Mind, Part 2; title: Jerusalem Ablaze.