The Things We Don't Do

✍ Scribed by Neuman, Andrés; Caistor, Nick; Garcia, Lorenza

• Book ID: 110276131
• Publisher: Open Letter
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 458 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781940953199

✦ Synopsis

"Good readers will find something that can be found only in great literature, the kind written by real poets, a literature that dares to venture into the dark with open eyes and that keeps its eyes open no matter what . . . . The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Neuman and a few of his blood brothers."--Roberto Bolaño

Playful, philosophizing, and gloriously unpredictable, Andres Neuman's short stories consider love, lechery, history, mortality, family secrets, therapy, Borges, mysterious underwear, translators, and storytelling itself.

Here a relationship turns on a line drawn in the sand; an analyst treats a patient who believes he's the real analyst; a discovery in a secondhand shop takes on a cruel significance; a man decides to go to work naked one day. In these small scenes and brief moments Neuman confounds our expectations with dazzling sleight of hand.

With a variety of forms and styles, Neuman opens up the...