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Thirteen stories written between 2008 and 2010 about the modern city dweller trying to find and keep a self once the worn clothes of propriety, correctness and false image are stripped away. They range over the absurdity of social networks, love gone wrong, why other people's failures please us, and the troubles of the young, the old and everyone in between, in modes from urban gothic and online romantic comedy to feline diabolism, a chemical fairy tale, constitutional satire and refrigerated magic realism. Read together they feel like a single hero placed in different situations under different names, and at the end of the book the author explains why he wrote them.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

96 pages in the original

First published

2011 by Ciela

ISBN

9789542808770 (original)