ISBN: 9798903337798 - tales from the motherland deluxe cut (6 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Tales From the Motherland is a collection of interlinked stories exploring power, memory, exile, and the quiet violence of modern life. Set against shifting landscapes that echo Eastern Europe, post-Soviet cities, and imagined borderlands, the book examines how people survive systems that no longer announce themselves with force, but with procedure, habit, and polite indifference.These stories are populated by figures living slightly out of phase with their surroundings: men and women shaped by collapse, transition, and reinvention; characters who sense that something fundamental has changed but cannot fully name it. Old forms of authority-loud, personal, theatrical-linger as ghosts, while newer structures operate invisibly, removing individuals through classification rather than confrontation. The tension between these modes of power runs quietly beneath every page.The prose moves between noir-inflected observation, dark humor, and moments of stark intimacy. Violence, when it appears, is rarely redemptive. Nostalgia offers no rescue. What remains is attention: to the body, to language, to small decisions that carry disproportionate weight. Waiting, hesitation, and refusal become acts with moral force, not because they overthrow anything, but because they interrupt inevitability.This Deluxe Cut presents the text as a finished artifact rather than a mass-market product. Designed as a collector's hardcover edition, it reflects the book's central concerns with materiality, permanence, and residue. The emphasis here is not speed or convenience, but durability-both physical and thematic.Tales From the Motherland does not offer comfort or resolution. It is concerned instead with thresholds: the moment before disappearance, the pause before compliance, the awareness that arrives too late to be useful but too early to ignore. These stories ask what remains of agency when escape narratives fail, and what kind of dignity can exist in staying present when systems prefer you to move on quietly.This edition is intended for readers who value fiction as an object, not just a file, and who recognize that some stories demand to be held, not scrolled past. A collection of interconnected stories exploring power, exile, and modern displacement. These narratives examine how authority operates quietly through procedure and habit, and how individuals navigate systems that erase without spectacle. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Tales From the Motherland is a collection of interlinked stories exploring power, memory, exile, and the quiet violence of modern life. Set against shifting landscapes that echo Eastern Europe, post-Soviet cities, and imagined borderlands, the book examines how people survive systems that no longer announce themselves with force, but with procedure, habit, and polite indifference.These stories are populated by figures living slightly out of phase with their surroundings: men and women shaped by collapse, transition, and reinvention; characters who sense that something fundamental has changed but cannot fully name it. Old forms of authority-loud, personal, theatrical-linger as ghosts, while newer structures operate invisibly, removing individuals through classification rather than confrontation. The tension between these modes of power runs quietly beneath every page.The prose moves between noir-inflected observation, dark humor, and moments of stark intimacy. Violence, when it appears, is rarely redemptive. Nostalgia offers no rescue. What remains is attention: to the body, to language, to small decisions that carry disproportionate weight. Waiting, hesitation, and refusal become acts with moral force, not because they overthrow anything, but because they interrupt inevitability.This Deluxe Cut presents the text as a finished artifact rather than a mass-market product. Designed as a collector's hardcover edition, it reflects the book's central concerns with materiality, permanence, and residue. The emphasis here is not speed or convenience, but durability-both physical and thematic.Tales From the Motherland does not offer comfort or resolution. It is concerned instead with thresholds: the moment before disappearance, the pause before compliance, the awareness that arrives too late to be useful but too early to ignore. These stories ask what remains of agency when escape narratives fail, and what kind of dignity can exist in staying present when systems prefer you to move on quietly.This edition is intended for readers who value fiction as an object, not just a file, and who recognize that some stories demand to be held, not scrolled past. …

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