This unusual, haunting collection of short stories, translated from French by Blake Smith, defies easy slotting into a genre. The seven macabre stories talk about death in different ways – a deadly attempt to climb a tamarind tree, a woman waiting to die on the banks of the Ganga – with experiments in form and style. Prose, poetry, dialogue all sit together in these evocative tales about people and experiences that are rarely written about.
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