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Steeped in subtle irony and the surreal, it is also a sui generis act of remembrance, memorial, and love.\"--Michael Mejia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For those unfamiliar with Tarnawsky's work, WARM ARCTIC NIGHTS makes a perfect place to start--especially now, when debates over fascism and refugees are sadly once again at the forefront of the news...Lyrical, emotional, and compulsively readable, WARM ARCTIC NIGHTS and THE IGUANAS OF HEAT make remarkable additions to what was already a powerful body of work. Both are heartily recommended.\"--A.D. 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You'll find the answer in this dazzling new collection of absurdist \"short shrift fictions\" by the author of THE PLACEBO EFFECT TRILOGY.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In case you have missed the voice of the rich, courageous, adventurous fiction writing of Yuriy Tarnawsky, this collection will be a great introduction. You will experience his unique ability to meld wicked humor and looming gravitas.One of the great under-recognized talents in the fiction of the 20th-21st century.\"-Steve Katz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If Frankenstein had had the wit of Groucho Marx and the subtle plasticity of Magritte he might have written these magical and dangerous stories instead of Yuriy Tarnawsky. The master of short tails has struck again! Frightening, funny and baffling as ever!\"-Alain Arias-Misson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Yuriy Tarnawsky's fictional world is one in which every object and every action is meaningful. Haircuts have meaning. Two refrigerators are alive with ominous activity. Kafka meets Sartre (implying hell is... other bugs!). Sweet porridge can 'assuage the victim's suffering.' The stories are perfectly envisioned, as if Tarnawsky had just landed on this earth with his sense of wonder still intact, looking at everything and trying to understand. Reading these stories is like learning to see all over again!\"-Eckhard Gerdes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67577572229343,"sku":"9781884097881","price":24.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vSNhCC9Bpv9781884097881.webp?v=1790395035"},{"product_id":"sebastian-in-a-dream-paperback","title":"Sebastian in a Dream - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten in an internal monologue style, driven by incessant denial of what has been said he developed in his 2011 story \"Father,\" Yuriy Tarnawsky's \u003ci\u003eThe First-Person Dilogy\u003c\/i\u003e mixes autobiographical data with fiction, to create a powerful, two-part music-like composition of syntax and semantics. The first novel, \u003ci\u003eSebastian in a Dream, \u003c\/i\u003e was inspired by Georg Trakl's famous eponymous poem and is patterned on J. S. 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Its companion, \u003ci\u003eThe Burial of the Count of Orgaz, \u003c\/i\u003e which is based on El Greco's masterpiece, also consists of thirty variations that roughly correspond to the thirty figures in the painting, describes a man who has come to die in the Spanish city of Toledo and visits each day the church in which the painting is housed, in order to see it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67651246489823,"sku":"9781884097133","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/fjmoFWF_rK9781884097133.webp?v=1790527942"},{"product_id":"the-iguanas-of-heat-paperback","title":"The Iguanas of Heat - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiction. A woman possessed by an inexplicable hatred for her husband plans his death on their forthcoming trip to Mexico. It is unwittingly facilitated by a young girl with whom the husband falls in love.\u003c\/p\u003eTHE IGUANAS OF HEAT is an altogether different book, even as it remains unmistakably a novel by Yuriy Tarnawsky. Recalling at times the works of John O'Hara, John Hawkes, Paul and Jane Bowles, as well as Ann Quin, it tells the story of an extremely unhappily married couple, Greta Kraus and Walter Kramer...Lyrical, emotional, and compulsively readable, WARM ARCTIC NIGHTS and THE IGUANAS OF HEAT make remarkable additions to what was already a powerful body of work. Both are heartily recommended.\"--A.D. 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