Scablands and Other Stories
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Salt Modern Stories
ISBN-10
1784632945
ISBN-13
9781784632946
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Imprint
Salt Publishing
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 15th, 2023
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
144 grams
Dimensions
11.20 x 17.70 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Short stories
Ksh 1,800.00
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These are tales from the twilit scablands – stories of austerity, masochism, migration, as well as unexpected laughter, music, even bubbles.
These are tales from the post-industrial scablands – stories of austerity, poverty, masochism and migration. The people here are sick, lonely, lost, half-living in the aftermath of upheaval or trauma. A teacher obsessively canes himself. A neurologist forgets where home is. A starving woman sells hugs in an abandoned kiosk. Yet sometimes, even in the twilit scablands, there’s also beauty, music, laughter. Sometimes a town square is filled with bubbles. Sometimes sisters dream they can fly. Sometimes an old man plays Bach to an empty street, two ailing actors see animal shapes in clouds, a cancer survivor searches for a winning lottery ticket in her rundown flat. And sometimes Gustav Mahler lives just round the corner, hoarding rare records in a Stoke terrace.
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