Jagannath: Stories

Jagannath: Stories
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â€œI have never read anything like Jagannath. Karin Tidbeckâ€™s imagination is recognizably Nordic, but otherwise unclassifiableâ€“quietly, intelligently, unutterably strange. And various. And ominous. And funny. And mysteriously tender. These are wonderful stories.â€ â€“ Ursula K. Le Guin â€œRestrained and vivid, poised and strange, Tidbeck, with her impossible harmonies, is a vital voice.â€ â€“ China Mieville Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly fantastical short stories. Whether through the falsified historical record of the uniquely weird Swedish creature known as the â€œPyretâ€ or the title story, â€œJagannath,â€ about a biological ark in the far future, Tidbeckâ€™s unique imagination will enthrall, amuse, and unsettle you. How else to describe a collection that includes â€œCloudberry Jam,â€ a story that opens with the line â€œI made you in a tin canâ€? Marvels, quirky character studies, and outright surreal monstrosities await you in the book widely praised by Michael Swanwick, Ursula K. Le Guin, China Mieville, and Karen Joy Fowler. Publishers Weekly calls it â€œbraveâ€¦and brilliant.â€ Locus Magazine says this is the most significant debut since the award-winning Margo Lanagan. Introduction by Elizabeth Hand, afterword by the author. â€œTidbeck has a gift for the uncanny and the unsettling. In these wonderful, subtle stories, magic arrives quietly. It comes from the forests or the earth or was always there in your own family or maybe exists in another realm entirelyâ€¦leaving you slightly dazed and more than a little enchanted.â€ â€“ Karen Joy Fowler â€œWere this collection to contain only its biomechanoid wonder of a title story, it would still be amazing. Jagannath heralds the arrival of a bold and brilliant new voice, which I see too few of these days. You must read Karin Tidbeck.â€ â€“ Caitlin R. Kiernan â€œIn Karin Tidbeckâ€™s collection Jagannath, the mundane becomes strange and the strange familiar with near-Hitchcockian subtlety. I loved Tidbeckâ€™s clean, classic prose. It creates beautifully eerie music for a twilight domain.â€ â€“ Karen Lord â€œI canâ€™t think of when I last read a collection that blew me away the way that Jagannath has, or one thatâ€™s left me somewhat at a loss to describe just how strange and beautiful and haunting these tales are.â€ â€“ Elizabeth Hand (from her introduction)
Country USA
Brand Brand: Cheeky Frawg Books
Manufacturer Cheeky Frawg Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780985790400
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Cheeky Frawg Books
Manufacturer	Cheeky Frawg Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780985790400
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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