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Slow Elephants of Milan

by Bonomini,

Twelve stories at the edge of the familiar

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    Publishers Weekly starred review

    Starred review; described as “Revelatory and seductive.”

AlbakiReads Editorial

Twelve stories at the edge of the familiar

These twelve short fictions move among an uncanny road-trip destination, gaucho rebels caught in wartime, and elephants glimpsed in postwar Milan. Their varied situations are linked by questions of time, memory, art, and the divine. The descriptions suggest stories in which ordinary journeys and historical circumstances open onto uncertainty: Laar may not be a city at all, while the Milan traveler records a sight that seems almost to defy explanation. Together, the pieces bring the strange and the reflective into a collection shaped by curiosity about what can be remembered, imagined, and made through art.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy short-story collections with varied settings and situations.
  • Readers interested in fiction exploring time, memory, art, and spirituality.
  • Readers drawn to stories that introduce uncanny or ambiguous elements.

Themes

Time and memoryArt and storytellingThe divineUncanny journeys and uncertain reality

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Book overview

"Revelatory and seductive."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

Enigmatic fictions from a lost master of Argentine literature.

A man and woman on a road trip make an unplanned detour to Laar, an empty city of palaces and canals that may be no city at all. Two gaucho rebels are captured during war--one finds freedom in writing stories while the other is driven mad with envy. And a traveler in postwar Italy is inspired, almost against his will, to record the mysterious progress of two elephants through the foggy streets of Milan.

In twelve short fictions threaded together by an insatiable curiosity about time, memory, art, and the divine,

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