And Other Stories

by Georgi Gospodinov

Book Overview

Wildly imaginative and endlessly entertaining, Georgi Gospodinov's short stories provide a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges and a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-Communist life in Eastern Europe. These stories within stories and contemporary fables--whether a tongue-in-cheek crime story or the Christmas tale of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected epiphany or to an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810124327
• ISBN13: 9780810124325
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"