Is There Anybody to Love You? Dalkey Archive Essentials

Is There Anybody to Love You? Dalkey Archive EssentialsIn these pages, you will meet the Collector of Valuable Things (packs of cigarettes, love letters, a magpies feather), a private eye at the end of his rope, and a young boy coming to terms, like the rest of us, with the mysteries of his existence. Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. A hymn to the city of Sofia, a series of whimsical character portraits, a literary mural of Bulgaria at the beginning of the twenty first century, Is There

“From Out of the City is intricate

while single moments are expanded cubistically into entire landscapes

the New York Times called Hopeful Monsters a virtual encyclopedia of twentieth century thought

Allen Young is a freelance translator

Sorrentino evokes this unyieldingly grim Brooklyn boyhood

allowing readers to see things from a distinctly different perspective

Visions of Maria's mental illness make the flavor surreal

) 'A Game of Clue' delineates the line between strategy and chance in a board game while plotting the relationships among the players

He is the 2012 winner of the Heimrad Bäcker Prize

the narrator’s imaginative reflections cause the narrative to balloon outward into the realms of fiction and fantasy

He later became associated with the Gruppe 47

Includes work by Mariam Bekauri