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Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Salt Publishing (8 Sep 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1844714756
ISBN-13: 978-1844714759
Dimensions:
19.6 x 13 x
1.2 cm
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About The White Road and other StoriesWhat
links a café in Antarctica, a factory for producing electronic tracking
tags and a casino where gamblers can wager their shoes? They're among
the multiple venues where Tania Hershman sets her unique tales in this
spellbinding debut collection.
Fleeing
from tragedy, a bereaved mother opens a cafe on the road to the South
Pole. A town which has always suffered extreme cold enjoys sudden
warmth. A stranger starts plaiting a young woman's hair. A rabbi comes
face to face with an angel in a car park. A young man's potential is
instantly snuffed out by Nature's
whims. A lonely widow bakes cakes in the shape of test tubes and DNA.
A
number of these stories are inspired
by articles from science
magazines,
taking fact as their starting points and wondering
what
might happen if . . .? In these surreal, lyrical stories, many of which
are only
a few pages long,
Tania Hershman allows her imagination free
rein, as her characters navigate through love, death, friendship,
spirituality, mental illness and the havoc wreaked by the weather.
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Tania
is partnering with Eco-Libris
to balance out her book by planting a tree for every copy. Click on the
image to find out more! |
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