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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Other worlds
    sub title: stories
  name:
    name part: Alexis, André
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: short story
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 276 pages ; 21 cm
  abstract: A Trinidadian obeah man finds himself reborn, a hundred years after his death, in the body of a Canadian child, a writer takes up a seasonal job as a caretaker for a set of mysterious large sacks hanging from the rafters of the houses in a small town, a woman starts a relationship with the famous artist who painted portraits of her mother and the contents of a sealed envelope upends a woman's understanding about a tragic crime she committed at the age of six. In this dazzling collection of stories, André Alexis draws fresh connections between worlds, the ones we occupy, the ones we imagine and the ones that preceded our own. He introduces us to characters during moments of profound puzzlement, or at a crossroads and transports us from 19th century Trinidad and Tobago to small-town Ontario, from Amherst, Massachusetts to contemporary Toronto. These captivating stories reveal flashes of reckoning, defeat, despair, alienation and understanding, all the while playfully using a multitude of literary genres, including gothic horror and isekai, and referencing works from the greats like Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Yasunari Kawabata, Witold Gombrowicz and Tomasso Landolfi. Masterfully crafted, blending poignant philosophical inquiry and wry humor tinged with the absurd, here are worlds refracted and reflected back to us with pristine clarity and stunning emotional resonance as only André Alexis can.
  table of contents: Contrition: an Isekai -- Houyhnhnm -- Winter, or a town near Palgrave -- A certain likeness -- A misfortune -- The bridle path -- Pu Songling: an appreciation -- Consolation -- An elegy.
  note: André Alexis.
  subject:
    topic: Short stories, Canadian
  classification: PR9199.3.A365 O84 2025
  classification: 813/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: FSG originals
  identifier: 9780374611408
  identifier: 0374611408
  identifier: 2024056821
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241203
    record change date: 20260720185410.7
    record identifier: in00005780729