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Games with Greta & Other Stories

Suzana Tratnik

出版	Dalkey Archive Press, 2016
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Literary
ISBN	162897141X9781628971415
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=a2AgjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The protagonists of Suzana Tratnik's short stories in Games with Greta all share a sense of isolation on society's margins. Whether non-participants in the mainstream, rebels against it, or its occasional victims, they're well practiced at recognizing the herd instinct in action. From the six-year-old girl who discovers transgressive new games to play with her glamorous cousin from England; to a decidedly unusual schoolchild inventing a novel way of getting back at playground bullies; to young women who find their love interests drifting away, seduced by conventional notions of popularity and success; to a narrator who suddenly finds herself on no ordinary train trip through the heart of Slovenia--these are characters and stories that deftly and sardonically underscore the phantom nature of "normalcy" itself and the risks of its tyranny for dissenters and conformists alike.