The stone building and other places /
Three interconnected stories culminate in a short novella, whose stone building is a metaphor for the various oppressive institutions -- prisons, police HQs, hospitals and psychiatric asylums -- which dominate the lives of these characters. A distillation of the experience of exile and incarceration...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
City Lights Books,
[2018]
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| Summary: | Three interconnected stories culminate in a short novella, whose stone building is a metaphor for the various oppressive institutions -- prisons, police HQs, hospitals and psychiatric asylums -- which dominate the lives of these characters. A distillation of the experience of exile and incarceration, both physical and mental, presented in moving, allegorical portraits of lives ensnared by the power structures. |
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| Physical Description: | 174 pages ; 18 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780872867505 0872867501 |