Eye / Marianne Micros.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Micros, Marianne, 1943- author.

Series:

Essential prose series ; 149.

Essential prose series ; 149

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

vii, 141 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Guernica Editions, 2018.

Summary:

"Myth, folklore, and magic permeate the stories in Marianne Micros' collection Eye. Set in ancient and modern Greece, and in contemporary Europe and North America, these tales tell of evil-eye curses, women healers, ghosts, a changeling, and people struggling to retain or gain power in a world of changing beliefs. Here you will find stories of a nymph transformed into a heifer, a young soldier who returns home to discover that his brother is a changeling, an ancient temple uncovered during the construction of a church, a betrayed woman lost in a labyrinth, a wise woman confronting changes to her position when modern technology comes to her village. Some stories show that people still seek refuge in myth and folk beliefs; the ways of the past are not gone. The paving of a village does not destroy the power of the evil eye or the ability to repel it. A temple in honour of the old gods comes again to the surface. An unfinished musical composition for piano magically completes itself whenever it is played. Magic is not dead but rises again in unexpected ways."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Short stories.

Other Format:

Micros, Marianne, 1943-, author. Eye./

ISBN:

9781771832571

1771832576

OCLC:

1035322584