![]() ![]() One of Finland’s most iconic writers, translated into many languages, and winner of the prestigious Finlandia Prize, Krohn has had an incredibly distinguished career. ![]() Krohn's creations are crisp and concise, using precision of language to convey tales frightening and fantastical. Hand's 14th novel, "Hard Light," will be published in April. Krohn writes eloquently, passionately, about the nature of reality, the nature of Nature, and what it means to be human. Leena Krohn 13 Paperback 17 offers from 4.03 From Publishers Weekly This ambitious collection of short and long fiction is a delightful feast of the finest SF. :: Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction Leena Krohn Cheeky Frawg Books: 850 pp, $36.99 "Beauty is the universe's most enduring quality," Krohn, now 68, states in her afterword, "it is repeated in atoms and galaxies, numbers and relations and the way a tree grows." This is a writer whose work can rewire your brain, leaving you with an enhanced, near-hallucinatory apprehension of our fragile planet, and of all the beings that inhabit it. ![]() He gets a job taking tickets at the opera and is enthralled by "The Magic Flute." (He especially likes the birdcatcher, Papageno.) Reminiscent of Roald Dahl's work, it's a book that deserves to be called a classic.Īs do nearly all of the extraordinary tales collected here. Only children recognize him as a pelican: dressed in human clothing, the pelican calls himself Mr. ![]() This singular vision of a transcendent connection between species also shines in "Datura," where ingesting the seeds of the titular poisonous plant subtly changes the way a woman perceives the world, and "The Pelican's New Clothes," in which a pelican befriends a lonely boy named Emil. ![]()
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