Aberrant by Marek Sindelka
The remarkable debut novel from Marek Sindelka, Aberrant is a multifaceted work that mixes and mashes together a variety of genres and styles to create a heady concoction of crime story, horror story (inspired by the Japanese tradition of kaidan), ecological revenge fantasy, and Siberian shamanism. Nothing is what it seems. What appears to be human is actually a shell occupied by an alien spirit, or demon, and what appears to be an unassuming plant is an aggressive parasite that harbors a poisonous substance within, or manifests itself as an assassin, a phantom with no real substance who pursues his victims across Europe and through a post-apocalyptic Prague ravaged by floods. The blind see, and the seeing are blind. Through these devices, Sindelka weaves a tale of three childhood friends, the errant paths their lives take, and the world of rare plant smuggling - and the consequences of taking the wrong plant - to show the rickety foundation of illusions on which our relationship to the environment, and to one another, rests. It is a world of aberrations, anomalies, and mistakes.
Sndelka, Marek: - Born in 1984 in the Bohemian town of Policka, Sindelka attended Charles University in Prague, majoring in Cultural Studies, and the film academy, FAMU, where he studied screenwriting. He debuted as a writer with the poetry collection Strychnine and Other Poems in 2005, for which he was awarded the prestigious Jiri- Orten Prize. He followed this with his first work of prose, the novel Aberrant (2008), His short story collection Stay with Us (2011) won the Magnesia Litera Prose Book of the Year Award. A regular contributor on literature to newspapers and magazines, Sindelka lives in Prague
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| ISBN 13 | 9788086264509 |
| ISBN 10 | 8086264505 |
| Title | Aberrant |
| Author | Marek Sindelka |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Twisted Spoon Press |
| Year published | 2017-05-04 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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