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Things to Make and Break

Things to Make and Break

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Things to Make and Break is a collection of short stories that explore themes of love, loss, identity, and cultural divides. The language is hypnotic, deadpan, intense, and the sentences are jewel-hard and sublime. The stories are stylish, exuberant, and often hallucinatory.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 28 June 2018
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD

A motorcycle courier finds a cache of nude photos in her boyfriend's desk. The daughter of East German emigrants encounters her doppelgänger, who has crossed another cultural divide. Twin brothers fall for the same girl. When a stripper receives an enigmatic proposal from a client, she accepts, ignorant of its terms.

Shadows, doubles, and the ghosts of past and future lovers haunt these elegantly structured and often hallucinatory stories. The language is hypnotic, deadpan, intense; the sentences jewel-hard and sublime. Things to Make and Break is the work of a stylish, exuberant new voice in modern fiction.

'Quite dazzling' TLS

Weight: 186g
Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781473683624

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