{"product_id":"and-other-stories-1","title":"And Other Stories","description":"Stories within stories, a few contemporary fables, a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges, a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-communist life in Eastern Europe - these are the elements that come together in a unique and surprising way in the wildly imaginative and endlessly engaging short stories of Georgi Gospodinov. Whether a tongue-in-cheek crime\/horror story or the Christmas story of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected epiphany or an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a puzzle box, the work in this collection offers a kaleidoscopic experience of a writer whose style has been described as \"\"anarchic, experimental\"\" (\"\"New Yorker\"\") and \"\"compulsively readable\"\" (\"\"New York Times\"\"). Gospodinov's debut prose work \"\"Natural Novel\"\" was hailed as a \"\"go-for-broke postmodern construction - a devilish jam of jump-cut narration, pop culture riffs, wholesale quotation, and Chinese-box authorship\"\" (\"\"Village Voice\"\"). At once familiar and fantastic, his writing is high comedy, high seriousness, and of very high order.","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56709209719128,"sku":"9780810124325","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780810124325.jpg?v=1781163029","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/and-other-stories-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}