Kalpa Imperial : the greatest empire that never was /
This is the first of Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral...
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Easthampton, MA :
Small Beer Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; Book One: The House of Power; Portrait of the Emperor; The Two Hands; The End of a Dynasty, Or The Natural History of Ferrets; The Siege, Battle, and Victory of Selimmagud; Concerning the Unchecked Growth of Cities; Book Two: The Greatest Empire; Portrait of the Empress; And the Streets Deserted; The Pool; Basic Weapons; "Down There in the South"; The Old Incense Road; About the Author.