LOS MEJORES MISTERIOS SOBRE EL MUNDO DE LOS LIBROS UNA OBRA DEL CREADOR DEL INSPECTOR REBUS Un turbulento relato sobre un hombre obsesionado con la semilla que inspiró la historia de Jekyll y Hyde.
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.
In this collection of strange Malaysian stories, a man expecting to have died wakes up still living and meets the entity responsible; a neighbor more than minds a child; Red Riding Hood gets a makeover to a Malaysian dystopia; the death of a husband spells more than loss; a father confronts foreign invaders; a Goldilocksian home invader must eat to survive; train passengers witness an accident; ghosts cross-dress, and others at a church get nostalgic.
