Publication

1997-10-15 - Northwestern University Press

Language

English

Word Count

24,750 words, Guess

Page Count

99 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing1319249
  • Goodreads2455899

Classifications

  • LCCPG1419.1.L335 C5613 1997

Description

"A beautifully written prose work, Tsing is a multi-layered narrative that combines a wholly fictional novel-within-a-novel with an episodic chronicle of the narrator's present as a traveler to and visiting writer in the United States.". "Much more than an "ordinary" postmodern text, Tsing is a quiet and moving paean to the narrator's deceased father. Beginning with a series of imagined vignettes involving a father and a daughter, Albahari weaves both real and imagined narrative fragments together with considerable skill. As Albahari's fragments - simple stories about persons approaching each other, spending some time together, and eventually going their separate ways - accumulate, his deft combination of paradox and poetry provides a kaleidoscopic view of memory, love, and loneliness."--BOOK JACKET.

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