Medusa’s Ankles
**A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writing
With an introduction by David Mitchell**
Byatt takes her readers to a place that is rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgettable. Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess honing it into something sharp and frosted. Summer sunshine flickers on the face of a smiling child who may or may not be real.
Peopled by artists, poets and fabulous creatures, these stories travel from the ancient mythic world to an English sweet factory, a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, a Turkish bazaar to a fairy-tale palace. Blazing with creativity, they show what lies beneath the veneer of the ordinary, and reveal the fantastical possibilities beyond.
'A cabinet of curiosities... Glitteringly beautiful' Sunday Times
**'A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas' Spectator
'Moving, witty and shocking' Sunday Telegraph**
Auteur | | A S Byatt |
Taal | | Engels |
Type | | E-book |
Categorie | | Literatuur & Romans |