Stalin is dead : stories and aphorisms on animals, poets and other earthly creatures / Rachel Shihor ; with a foreword by Nicole Krauss and typograms by the translator ; translated from the Hebrew by Ornan Rotem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sihor, Rachel, author.

Contributor:

Rotem, Ornan, translator.

Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund.

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Hebrew--Translations into English.

Short stories, Hebrew.

Genre:

Translations.

Hebrew fiction.

Physical Description:

137 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition, dual language.

Other Title:

שער נוסף: סטלין מת / רחל שיחור ; translated from the Hebrew by Ornan Rotem

Place of Publication:

London : Sylph Editions, 2015.

Language Note:

In English and Hebrew.

Summary:

"In this playfully designed dual language edition, Rachel Shihor's stories - published here for the first time in the original Hebrew appear alongside Ornan Rotem's translation into English. Shihor offers a medley of aphorisms, flash fiction, and short stories, carving out a slice of the world in which Kafka would feel at home. The characters that inhabit this world - reckless she-goats, morose fish, somnambulistic theologians, poignant old ladies, dying dictators, and dead poets, to name just a few - have nothing in common save for the fact that they instruct us on the human condition. These edifying stories, with all their sadness and humor, are a writer's tour de force and a reader's delight." --Back cover.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund.

Contains:

Sihor, Rachel. Works. Selections.

Sihor, Rachel. Works. Selections. English.

ISBN:

9781909631144

1909631140

OCLC:

950883170

Publisher Number:

99967481145