One Thousand Days in a Refrigerator e-bog
87,29 DKK
(inkl. moms 109,11 DKK)
';It took nearly five minutes for her ashes to cool down. Afterwards, someone held out a handful. ';Here she is, your Lara. Take her.' The agony stuck within me like an iceberg for one thousand days shattered without warning and drowned me in a flood of tears.'A man sits before his wife lying comatose in a refrigerated chamber and tells her the thoughts he had never dared express when she was c...
E-bog
87,29 DKK
Forlag
Speaking Tiger Books
Udgivet
5 april 2016
Længde
224 sider
Genrer
FA
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9789385755712
';It took nearly five minutes for her ashes to cool down. Afterwards, someone held out a handful. ';Here she is, your Lara. Take her.' The agony stuck within me like an iceberg for one thousand days shattered without warning and drowned me in a flood of tears.'A man sits before his wife lying comatose in a refrigerated chamber and tells her the thoughts he had never dared express when she was conscious; ';When the Gods Left' follows Rajula Dip, a carrion-picker, as he goes about his business and himself becomes carrion; in ';Fragments', a woman takes a bus to her rapist's house to speak to him and to his family; God himself appears in court to give testimony in a case where justice has been miscarried; and in ';The Hunt', after a tiger kills a shepherd, the entire village turns on the victim's family in revenge.One Thousand Days in a Refrigerator includes fourteen stories of great power and beauty, startling in their variety and ambition. It showcases a writer at the very peak of his considerable abilities.