Dark Paradise Contributor(s): Liksom, Rosa (Author), McDuff, David (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1564784371 ISBN-13: 9781564784377 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $11.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2007 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2006016857 |
Series: Finnish Literature |
Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.49" W x 8.02" (0.39 lbs) 117 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A man murders a grocer over fifteen cents--but in the sharp, icy prose and detached tone that defines this collection, his crime seems neither sensational nor entirely reprehensible. Rosa Liksom populates a world of snow-covered landscapes, antiseptic apartments, fish factories, and lumber camps with the obsessive, the violent, and the unhinged. A woman refuses to leave prison until she has served her entire sentence. A man obsessively cleans his apartment as his life moves on around him. A woman kills her new husband over his neediness and inability to leave their bed. |