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Fifteen stories in which tragic situations are shot through with comedy, and reality blends with the unreal, transformed myth with present-day life. In ordinary places, a block of flats, a hospital, a newspaper kiosk, the city and the remote countryside, strange things begin to happen, since the characters often have supernatural powers and some events cannot be understood. The stories start in strict realism and end by undoing it, often with open endings, and are full of allusions to the Bible, myths and world literature, undercut by irony.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

244 pages in the original

First published

2009 by Pectus

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9788096979394 (original)