The involuntary sojourner : stories / S.P. Tenhoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tenhoff, S. P., author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

234 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Seven Stories Press, [2019]

Summary:

"In this striking debut, S.P. Tenhoff takes us to real and imagined countries around the globe, where characters find themselves passengers on voyages beyond the boundaries of their familiar world and their understanding of themselves. A town is split in two, a line painted down the middle, when two warring governments decide, arbitrarily, to redraw borders. A man hits a boy in a car accident that he begins to suspect might not have been an accident after all. An aging puppeteer in Edo-period Japan struggles to choose a successor before dementia overtakes him. And in the title story, a mysterious illness causes its victims to travel like sleepwalkers to distant countries, where they wake to discover that they are now fluent in languages and cultures they previously didn't know at all. Uncanny and profound, these ten stories capture those pivotal moments when our sense of place and self is forever shaken, and we must chart a new course"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ten views of the border

Maseru Casaba 9

Liability

The visitors

Winter crane

Diorama: retirement party, White Plains, 1997

Ichiban

The book of explorers

Kurobe and the secrets of puppetry

The involuntary sojourner: a case study.

Other Format:

Online version: Tenhoff, S.P. The involuntary sojourner

ISBN:

9781609809645

1609809645

OCLC:

1086560540