Jagannath

Jagannath

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 Ursula K. Le Guin, China Mieville, and Karen Joy Fowler. Introduction by Elizabeth Hand, afterword by the author. (Print version available in November.)

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
Author	Karin Tidbeck
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780985790424
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Cheeky Frawg Books
Manufacturer	Cheeky Frawg Books
NumberOfPages	142
PublicationDate	2012-09-22
Publisher	Cheeky Frawg Books
ReleaseDate	2012-09-22
Studio	Cheeky Frawg Books

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