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Tsing
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by David Albahari
Northwestern University Press
Due/Published
October 1997, 99 pages,
paper
ISBN
0810115689
Tsing is a multi-layered narrative that combines a wholly fictional novel-within-a-novel with an episodic chronicle of the narrator's present as a traveler to and visiting writer in the United States. It is also a quiet and moving paean to the narrator's deceased father. Beginning with a series of imagined vignettes involving a father and a daughter, Albahari weaves both real and imagined narrative fragments together with considerable skill. As Albahari's fragments -- simple stories about persons approaching each other, spending some time together, and eventually going their separate ways -- accumulate, his deft combination of paradox and poetry provides a kaleidoscopic view of memory, love, and loneliness. |
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