Purity : Nordic Council Prize Finalist

Author(s): Tich, Andrzej,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 04/06/2024,
Pagination: 124 pages, Illustrations,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: And Other Stories,
Published By: And Other Stories,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
Dimensions: 198 x 131 x 17
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781913505981

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The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds insight in a colour wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief finds himself in books. And cleaners reluctantly go on cleaning. With gravity and humour, against the backdrop of a violent civilization, people are depicted as fallen, or waiting to fall, rendered by Tichý with the fury, compassion and emotional complexity of Kendrick Lamar.