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  Tsing (Writings from an Unbound Europe (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) David Albahari

  

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  Short Description for TsingA beautifully written prose work, Tsing is a multilayered narrative that combines a wholly fictional novel-within-a-novel with an episodic chronicle of the narrator's present as a traveler to and visiting writer in the United States.Much more than an "ordinary" postmodern text, Tsing is a quiet and moving paean to the narrator's deceased father. Beginning with a series of imagined vignettes involv...
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  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Published: 20 April 1998
  • Format: Paperback 104 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780810115682 ISBN 10: 0810115689
  • Sales rank: 1,158,636

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• A beautifully written prose work, Tsing is a multilayered narrative that combines a wholly fictional novel-within-a-novel with an episodic chronicle of the narrator's present as a traveler to and visiting writer in the United States.Much more than an "ordinary" postmodern text, Tsing is a quiet and moving paean to the narrator's deceased father. Beginning with a series of imagined vignettes involving a father and a daughter, Albahari weaves both real and imagined narrative fragments together with considerable skill. As Albahari's fragments -- simple stories about persons approaching each other, spending some time together, and eventually going their separate ways -- accumulate, his deft combination of paradox and poetry provides a kaleidoscopic view of memory, love, and loneliness.Albahari's is a world where absence is presence and presence is absence, where life's only certainty is its uncertainty, and where the most disparate of experiences eventually unite to form a single, unbroken strand.