**A debut story collection of spectacular imaginative range and lyricism from a Pushcart Prize -winning author.** In Ayse Papatya Bucak's dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount the effects of an earthquake and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating and no one knows whethe
The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories
โ Scribed by Bucak, Ayse Papatya
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1324002972
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โฆ Synopsis
The history of girls -- A cautionary tale -- Iconography -- Little sister and Emineh -- Mysteries of the mountain south -- The Trojan War Museum -- Good fortune -- The dead -- An Ottoman's arabesque -- The gathering of desire;"The characters in this collection of dazzling and original stories--an infamous wrestler, a group of girls caught in a school explosion, an Ottoman ambassador with an infamous art collection--blur the boundaries between worlds real and imagined, western and eastern, physical and metaphysical. Examining themes of identity, othering, and self-determination, The Trojan War Museum strives to bring light to the darkest corners of ourselves and our histories."--Provided by publisher.
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