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Twenty-five short stories written over about five years and held together by one narrator-hero: a young, university-educated man from the capital who retells the world through his own feelings, with something of the angry young man and of an ironic, sceptical private eye. The book opens with a letter from a dying man to his former love. Elsewhere come biblical parody, retro pastiche, stories crowded with every kind of vehicle, a romance conducted over ICQ, and fantastic turns such as 'The Black Man', 'Variations on a Falling Kitten' and 'The Pipes of God'. Mirrors, dreams and above all death keep returning, and the title sets Buddhism's wish to rise above the earthly against the beach, emblem of the body and desire.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

132 pages in the original

First published

2008 by Janet 45

ISBN

9789544914912 (original)