A man and woman on a road trip make an unplanned
... detour to Laar, an empty city of palaces and canals that may be no city at all. Two gaucho rebels are captured during war - one finds freedom in writing stories while the other is driven mad with envy. And a traveler in postwar Italy is inspired, almost against his will, to record the mysterious progress of two elephants through the foggy streets of Milan. In ten short fictions threaded together by an insatiable curiosity about time, memory, art, and the divinem Angel Bonomini (The Novices of Lerna) explores "the sweet and subtle irrelation of things." Originally published in 1978 and appearing in English for the first time, Slow Elephants of Milan is an indispensible addition to our literature of the strange and fantastic. Read More
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