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The Trojan War Museum

And Other Stories
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Description

In Ayse Papatya Bucak's dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount gas explosions and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating, and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war. A joy and a provocation, Bucak's stories confront the nature of memory with humor and myth, performance and authenticity.

Product Details

PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Publish DateAugust 25, 2020
Pages224
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780393358346
Dimensions8.1 X 5.4 X 0.6 inches | 0.4 pounds

About the Author

Ayse Papatya Bucak's short fiction has been selected for the O. Henry and Pushcart prizes. She lives in Delray, Florida, where she is an associate professor in the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University.

Reviews

The Trojan War Museum is a unique balancing act, a testament to Bucak's ability to juggle multiple moods and themes in a way that corresponds with the reality of actual human emotion and captures the complexity of personal motivations.... This sophisticated understanding of human behavior, along with Bucak's exceptionally clever plotlines, elevate the collection to greatness.--Lisa Butts "BookBrowse"
A surrealist wunderkammer in which the lines between history and myth, reality and performance, and the cultural and personal are blurred and redrawn.-- "Millions"
Bucak's luminous debut taps folklore and real life to flesh out complex characters with an agile, inventive hand.-- "O, The Oprah Magazine"
Cerebral yet high-spirited.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
The author astutely deploys a range of styles and techniques that create a cerebral, multifarious collection. Bucak's remarkable, inventive, and humane debut marks her as a writer to watch.-- "Publisher's Weekly (starred review)"
A wonder cabinet of stories [each] so singular and marvelous.--Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble
This collection absolutely glows with life.--Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State

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