With stories addressing subjects as diverse as blood feuds
The narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener
although I'm not entirely sure what secrets I should or should not know" – Colum McCann
” This enormously comic—and equally melancholic—tale is perhaps Jonke’s masterwork
but the reality is well known—the poets and writers interviewed by Shiva Rahbaran speak instead of humiliation
Zündel's Exit Lannan Selections With stories addressing subjects asScrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Zndel: a philosopher, a wanna be writer; scattered, self conscious, glum, anxious, unlucky, discontent . . . At the end of his rope, he decides to flee his workaday life at all costs, only to find escape always a little beyond his reach. Zndels Exit is a Chaplinesque comedy of disintegration, never knowing if its coming or going. Scrounged from his notebooks