Stalin Is Dead Stories and Aphorisms on Animals, Poets and Other Earthly Creatures |
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| Author:
| Shihor, Rachel |
| Translator:
| Rotem, Ornan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9569920-8-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Sylph Editions
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $41.99 |
Book Description:
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More than 45 individual pieces of varying length and style. Aphorisms, flash fiction, and short stories commingle to create a truly fantastic world and idiosyncratic view of the human condition. In these tales we come across reckless she-goats, morose fish, somnambulistic theologians, poignant old ladies - not to mention dying dictators and dead poets. The original Hebrew text, published here for the first time, appears side by side with Ornan Rotem's translation into English....
More DescriptionMore than 45 individual pieces of varying length and style. Aphorisms, flash fiction, and short stories commingle to create a truly fantastic world and idiosyncratic view of the human condition. In these tales we come across reckless she-goats, morose fish, somnambulistic theologians, poignant old ladies - not to mention dying dictators and dead poets. The original Hebrew text, published here for the first time, appears side by side with Ornan Rotem's translation into English. Playfully interspersed throughout the text are typograms by the translator that take their inspiration from both the Hebrew and Roman alphabets.