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Bruno Schulz
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Chris Power
Cinnamon Shops
classic Polish literature
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Cynthia Ozick
David Grossman
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fantasy
Goodbye Eastern Europe
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Nicole Krauss
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Polish literature
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Salman Rushdie
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Street of Crocodiles
surrealism
The Book of Letters
The Messiah
The Sanatorium Under the Hourglass
The Street of Crocodiles
twentieth century classics
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Product details
- ISBN 9781782277897
- Dimensions: 120 x 165mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The stories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with mystery and wonder. In the narrowing, winding city streets, strange figures roam. Great flocks of birds soar over rooftops, obscuring the sun. Cockroaches appear through cracks and scuttle across floorboards. Individuals careen from university buildings to dimly lit parlour rooms, through strange shops and endless storms.
Crowded with moments of stunning beauty, the stories in this collection showcase Schulz's darkly modern sensibility, and his status as one of the great transformers of the ordinary into the fantastical.
Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer and artist who has influenced writers including Salman Rushdie, Roberto Bolaño, David Grossman and Cynthia Ozick. He was born and lived most of his life in the town of Drohobych, once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, then Poland, and now part of Ukraine. He published two collections of short stories - Cinnamon Shops and The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass - during his lifetime. Schulz was shot and killed by a German SS officer in Drohobych in 1942. His unfinished novel, The Messiah, was lost in the Holocaust.
