Brief and
surreal, these tiny stories (some are only three or four pages long) vary from
a deep study of human character to speculative tales of different types of
cities. My favorite was ‘Circulation’, about a man on his death bed and what
his son does for him- it’s one of the longest stories and there is time to
build up the thousand and one nights relationship that develops. Some of the
shorter pieces have no real plot; they are almost like exercises built on
writer’s prompts. Most of the stories have a distinct weirdness to them- a city
where they decide it’s not allowed to rain anymore; another city that is
nothing but restaurants; another where the people are addicted to movies and
every place, even the outside walls of buildings, is used to project films on.
I enjoyed most of the book but wasn’t in love with it.
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