Everyday Spooks
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| Title: | Everyday Spooks |
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| Description: | With famous Everyday Spooks (orig. publ. 1961), Prague-born Karel Michal presents an unforgettable assortment of fantastic creatures that inhabit his strange vision of everyday reality in'50s and'60s communist Czechoslovakia. Translated from the Czech by David Short and complemented with suitably eerie illustrations by Dagmar Hamsíková, this collection of seven short stories describes bizarre encounters where the past melts into the present, ordinary people meet comic and anxious figures and interact with ghosts, and mundane speech drifts repeatedly into absurdity. |
| Authors: | Michal, Karel, Short, David, Hamsikova, Dagmar |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction |
| Categories: | FICTION / Short Stories (single author) |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | With famous Everyday Spooks (orig. publ. 1961), Prague-born Karel Michal presents an unforgettable assortment of fantastic creatures that inhabit his strange vision of everyday reality in'50s and'60s communist Czechoslovakia. Translated from the Czech by David Short and complemented with suitably eerie illustrations by Dagmar Hamsíková, this collection of seven short stories describes bizarre encounters where the past melts into the present, ordinary people meet comic and anxious figures and interact with ghosts, and mundane speech drifts repeatedly into absurdity. |
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| ISBN: | 9788024614946 9788024625782 9788024629032 |
