From the back: From Comrade Shakespeare McNab who enlists the help of La Diablesse to retrieve his faltering career at a Caribbean broadcasting station, to the 14-year-old English girl who develops a terror of infinity; from the electrifying description of a woman attacked as she lies sleeping, to the lyrical exploration of myths of El Dorado, Pauline Melville lures the reader into intriguingly different worlds. The sheer malevolence of everyday life is offset with hilarity, making these stories both unsettling and funny.

I really liked these stories, different as they were in themselves. All of them have at least one interesting twist which not always mean they get funny in the end but always surprising. My favourites in this collection are I do not take messages from dead people (the story about comrade Shakespeare McNab mentioned in the book description), Tuxedo (about a quite unfortunate like-to-be-burglar), and Eat labba and drink creek water (the final story with the references to El Dorado). But there was no story which really disappointed me, Pauline Melville definitely knows how to write good stories, I will look out for her other works.

Thanks for sending.

I liked the stories, but sometimes it was difficult for me to understand the slang.

In einem großen Paket per DHL auf dem Weg zu book-a-billy.

Vielen lieben Dank für das tolle Paket mit Büchern für die 1 Jahr=1 Land- Challenge und die wunderbare Karte.