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Prayer for the Living
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $24.95
ISBN13: 9781617758638
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Feb 2 2021
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.20
Language: English
A Library Journal Best Book of 2021
No matter how different each story is in context or story line, Prayer for the Living is not simply a collection of different tales, it is a deliberate assemblage of universal truths that explores what it means to seek and to live. --Los Angeles Review of Books
Playful, frightening, shocking--these stories from a writer at the height of his power will make you think, or make you laugh. Sometimes they'll make you want to look away, but they will always hold your gaze.
These are stories set in London, in Byzantium, in the ghetto, in the Andes, and in a printer's shop in Lagos. Characters include a murderer, a writer, a detective, a woman in a dream, a man in a mirror, a little girl, a prison door, and the author himself.
Each one of these twenty-four stories will make you wonder if what you see in the world can really be all there is . . .
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