Naomi Ishiguro's fresh, magical and delightfully speculative short story collection merges the inventiveness of David Mitchell and the fairy-tale allure of Angela Carter to form its own powerful magic.
Witness what happens when a space-obsessed child conjures up a vortex in his mother's airing cupboard in Shearing Season. Watch unexpected possibilities open up in The Flat Roof when a musician makes friends with a flock of birds.
Get lost in the world of The Rat Catcher where, finding himself potentially out of his depth when he is summoned to a decaying royal palace, a rat catcher is plunged into a battle for the throne of a ruined kingdom.
In this stunning debut collection, the characters yearn for freedom and flight, and find their worlds transformed beyond their wildest imaginings.
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写得很好,也很吸引人,这些创造性的故事有利于想象力而不是粗暴的现实主义。《星期日泰晤士报》
'Winsomely written and engagingly quirky, these are inventive tales that favour imagination over gritty realism.' The Sunday Times
石黑的想象力是一个让幻想潜伏在边缘的地方,作为一种可能性,一种味道,而不是一种流派。《先驱报》
'Ishiguro's imagination is a place where the fantastical lurks in the margins as a possibility, a flavour rather than a genre' The Herald
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故事开始时像精致的网,结束时像牢不可破的钢丝陷阱
尼尔-盖曼
'Stories that start like delicate webs and finish like unbreakable wire traps'
Neil Gaiman
石黑直美晶莹剔透的散文让人愉悦和好奇。
沙琳-张
'Naomi Ishiguro's crystal clear prose delights and intrigues'
Naomi Ishiguro was born in London, in 1992. Her first novel, 'Common Ground,' comes out with Tinder Press on 25th March 2021. Her first collection of stories, 'Escape Routes,' was published in February 2020. She's a recent graduate of the University of East Anglia's MFA Creative Writing Programme, and spent two years in her early 20s working as a bookseller at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath.
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