In a village that has been preceded by time, or trampled over by time, or forgotten by him or her, there is a fierce war taking place, with no hope of ending it, as the two sides of it, man and animal, do not speak the same language, so there is no room for them to negotiate a truce.
Available for the first time in translation, Mendel Mann' s stories follow his life in reverse, from Israel in the 1950s to his experiences in the post-War Soviet Union and his childhood in Poland.
In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with punctuation, flirts with sci-fi and, in a metafictional twist, mocks his own position as omnipotent author.
