Decapolis: Tales from Ten Cities

Highlighting a cross-section of cultures, voices, landscapes, and recent histories of 10 major European cities, this short fiction collection presents new perspectives on the urban experience. Depicting characters that are only loosely connected to the societies that they describe, these tales offer snapshots of each city through isolated glimpses enlivened by surrealist wit--a lonely woman in Amsterdam cooks for a circle of middle-aged bachelors; a poet in Barcelona tries to capture the essence of the city in 11 words; and an unemployed journalist wanders in his deserted office in Reykjavik.

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• Authors: Larissa Boehning, David Constantine, Inger Edelfeldt, Arnon Grunberg, Emil Hakl, Amanda Michalopoulou, Empar Moliner, Aldo Nove, Jacques Reda, Dalibor Simpraga
• Assisted by: Maria Crossan (Editor), Karen Emmerich (Translation)
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2007
• EAN: 9781905583034
• ISBN: 978-1-905583-03-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 199 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic