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The Angel Tiger and Other Stories
1. Aufl.
8,49 € |
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Verlag: | Epigram Books |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 28.10.2019 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9789814845298 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 168 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>A couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher.<br/><br/>With disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the complex bonds between lovers are unravelled to the point of breaking, and the often strange and touching ways we define ourselves and our relationships in a fluctuating world.</p>
<p>A couple's cat leaves offerings of dead birds freighted with mysterious import. A foreign worker helps construct a concert hall that reawakens his musical longings. A young diver hunts venomous cone snails for a lovelorn researcher.<br/><br/>With disarming simplicity, Barrie Sherwood charts how the complex bonds between lovers are unravelled to the point of breaking, and the often strange and touching ways we define ourselves and our relationships in a fluctuating world.</p>
Barrie Sherwood is the author of two novels: The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa (2000) and Escape from Amsterdam (2007). A Hong Kong native of Canadian and French nationality, he now lives in Singapore and is the assistant professor in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. This is his first-short story collection.