Aberrant /

Aberrant /

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Author / Creator:	Šindelka, Marek, 1984- author.
Uniform title:	Chyba. English
Imprint:	Prague : Twisted Spoon Press, 2017. ©2008
Description:	219 pages ; 20 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Plants -- Fiction. Smuggling -- Fiction. Horror tales. Horror tales. Plants. Smuggling. Apocalyptic fiction. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11449982

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Other authors / contributors:	Fields, Nathan, translator.
ISBN:	8086264505 9788086264509
Summary:	"Aberrant is a multifaceted work that mixes and mashes together a variety of genres and styles to create a heady concoction of crime story, horror story (inspired by the Japanese tradition of kaidan), ecological revenge fantasy, and Siberian shamanism. Nothing is what it seems. What appears to be human is actually a shell occupied by an alien spirit, or demon, and what appears to be an unassuming plant is an aggressive parasite that harbors a poisonous substance within, or manifests itself as an assassin, a phantom with no real substance who pursues his victims across Europe and through a post-apocalyptic Prague ravaged by floods. The blind see, and the seeing are blind. Plants behave like animals, and animals are symbionts with plants. Through these devices, Šindelka weaves a tale of three childhood friends, the errant paths their lives take, and the world of rare plant smuggling {u2014} and the consequences of taking the wrong plant {u2014} to show the rickety foundation of illusions on which our relationship to the environment, and to one another, rests. It is a world of aberrations, anomalies, and mistakes."

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Call Number:	PG5040.29.I49 C413 2017
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