A Brief Alphabet of Torture - Stories

An unflinching and riveting meditation on the pain that attends every facet of existence--love and sacrifice and intimacy and beauty--a biography of torture

About the author

Vi Khi Nao is the author of the novel Fish in Exile and the poetry collection The Old Philosopher, which won the 2014 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her work includes poetry, fiction, film, and cross-genre collaboration.

Summary

Offers an unflinching and riveting meditation on the pain that attends every facet of existence - love and sacrifice and intimacy and beauty - a biography of torture. Like all of Vi Khi Nao's acclaimed and award-winning work, A Brief Alphabet of Torture bleeds across many modes and genres - poetry, essay, fiction, drama - and itself almost constitutes a novel of a different kind.

Product details

• Authors: Vi Khi Nao
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781573660617
• ISBN: 978-1-57366-061-7
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 202 g
• Series: Fiction Collective Two
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature