Full Description
The stories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with mystery and wonder. In the narrowing, winding city streets, strange figures roam. Great flocks of birds soar over rooftops, obscuring the sun. Cockroaches appear through cracks and scuttle across floorboards. Individuals careen from university buildings to dimly lit parlour rooms, through strange shops and endless storms.
Crowded with moments of stunning beauty, the stories in this collection showcase Schulz's darkly modern sensibility, and his status as one of the great transformers of the ordinary into the fantastical.
Contents
Translators' Foreword
August
Visitation
Birds
Cinnamon Shops
The Street of Crocodiles
Cockroaches
The Gale
The Night of the Great Season
The Book
The Age of Genius
My Father Joins the Fire Brigade
The Sanatorium under the Hourglass
Father's Last Escape
Undula
