Ignacio Padilla

Antipodes (eBook, ePUB)

Stories
Übersetzer: Reid, Alastair

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the author of the award-winning novel Shadow Without a Name, comes Antipodes, the first collection of his short fiction to be translated into English. This lively, eclectic, and highly imaginative volume spans time, place, and culture as the narratives move from the scorching heat of the Gobi desert to the glacial heights of Mount Everest.

Here, among others, are the stories of a great Scottish engineer, left to die in the middle of the desert, who is rescued by a tribe of nomads and inspires them to build an exact replica of the city of Edinburgh in the dunes; of a dying, cross-dressing pilot who allegedly climbs Mount Everest and then mysteriously disappears; of an English colonel who swears on his life to make the trains in Zambezi run on time, only to be forced to honor his word when they are always ten minutes late; of a monk who conjures the devil to prove the devil's existence; and of a young administrator of a psychiatric hospital who is appalled by the treatment of the patients, and devises his own bizarre solution.

Based on history, legend and an awe-inspiring power of invention, Antipodes delights, terrifies, and entrances.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429922944
• Artikelnr.: 39947764

Autorenporträt

Ignacio Padilla; Translated by Alastair Reid

Inhaltsangabe

Antipodes and the Century
Chronicle of the Second Plague
Ever Wrest: Log of the Journey
Ballistics: Some Notes
Rhodesia Express
Darjeeling
Hagiography of the Apostate
A Bestiary
Amends in Halak-Proot
About Our Flour
The Chinamen with the Heads
Time Regained