Swamp
About This Novel
This book contains a total of 12 short stories. In these works, the British marshes are given a strange and complex atmosphere. Stories and folklore from this land merge to create something entirely new. In the muddy paths of a swamp, a teenager might starve himself to death into the form of an eel; a house might fall in love with a girl and become jealous of her friends. A boy may return from the realm of the dead disguised as a fox... These short stories are written in a style and character that transcends the boundaries of realism, where familiar instincts mingle with changing, unpredictable wildness, and where the boundaries between human and animal are erased by myth and metamorphosis. Johnson reveals the stories of these protagonists in a new, thoroughly modern voice that challenges the limits of the power of the short story.
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