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by Danilo Kis,

Translated by Michael Henry Heim

Northwestern University Press

Due/Published December 1997, 208 pages, paper

ISBN 081011514x

Continuing the European Classics series, here is the first paperback edition of ". . . one of the finest fantastic collections since Borge's FICCIONES" (THE NATION). In these stories Danilo Kis depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes--the multitude of details that make up a human life. "Remarkable . . . . A shadow of death darkens this book, but it is a beautiful shadow and a luminescent darkness".--THE NEW REPUBLIC. 208 pp.