The Doll'S Alphabet Av Camilla Grudova

<p>Surreal, ambitious and exquisitely conceived, <em>The Doll''s Alphabet</em> is a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies ¿ many images recur in stories that are in turn child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark. In ¿Unstitching¿, a feminist revolution takes place. In ¿Waxy¿, a factory worker fights to keep hold of her Man in a society where it is frowned upon to be Manless. In ¿Agata''s Machine¿, two schoolgirls conjure a Pierrot and an angel in a dank attic room. In ¿Notes from a Spider¿, a half-man, half-spider finds love in a great European city. By constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has come up with a method for storytelling that is highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting.</p>