Evil Flowers: Stories

From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Present Tense Machine and Knots, a collection of playfully surreal stories...
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Author: Gunnhild Øyehaug
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Evil Flowers: Stories by Øyehaug, Gunnhild

Evil Flowers: Stories

CHF 26.65

Evil Flowers: Stories

CHF 26.65
Author: Gunnhild Øyehaug
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Present Tense Machine and Knots, a collection of playfully surreal stories about love, death, and metamorphosis.

In Evil Flowers, a precise but madcap collection of short stories, Gunnhild yehaug extracts the bizarre from the mundane and reveals the strange, startling brilliance of everyday life.

Across twenty-five stories, yehaug renovates the form again and again, confirming Lydia Davis's observation that her every story is "a formal surprise, smart and droll." The stories converse with, contradict, and expand on one another; birds, hagfish, and wild beasts reappear, gnawing at the fringes. A section of a woman's brain slips into the toilet bowl, removing her ability to remember or recognize types of birds (particularly problematic because she is an ornithologist). Medicinal leeches ingest information from fiberoptic cables, and a new museum sinks into the ground.

Inspired by Charles Baudelaire, a dreamer and romantic in the era of realism, yehaug revolts against the ordinary, reaching instead for the wonder to be found in fantasy and absurdity. Brimming with wit, ingenuity, and irrepressible joy, these stories mark another triumph from a dazzling international writer.

Author: Gunnhild Øyehaug
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 02/14/2023
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780374604745


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/14/2022
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2022
Booklist 01/01/2023 pg. 22

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