Description:
Offers a collection of short stories, in which an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching for her husband-to-be; and a small farming village comes together for a terrible lottery.
The creeping unease of lives squandered and the unspoken terrors of everyday, suburban life are captured with brilliant clarity and sly humour in these tales by a master of the short story form.
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Update 2018-02-14
Excellent short stories, all with weird and creepy characters and atmosphere. Easy english also:)
In my mind the best ones are these:
-The Daemon Lover
-Like mother used to make
-Flower garden
-Elizabeth
-The Lottery
But I always make the same mistake with short strory books; I read the stories "in a row". And after reading all I feel exhausted and the stories are mixed up in my head.

This book travels next to Austria. I hope the receiver enjoys these stories:)

Wow, I got a surprise RABCK! Thank you so much, Tyrnimarja. You have already made a cold and wet day a lot better. :)

This book found me in a bit of a reading slump. None of the books I picked up from my TBR shelf could hold my attention. Then I started reading this collection of wonderfully crafted short stories and gobbled them all up like an especially good box of chocolates. I read them slightly out of order, according to their length (for example, I'd pick shorter stories for waiting rooms and bus journeys, so I hopefully wouldn't be ripped out of an immersive storyworld before reaching the ending). While I enjoyed (if that's the right word for these unsettling and uncomfortable glimpses of worlds) "Flower Garden", "Elizabeth" and "After You, My Dear Alphonse" and discovering the prejudice and bigotry displayed by their characters, I immediately fell in love with "The Tooth". It was the last story I read, and I think it's glorious. It captures all the elusive in-between-ness of liminal place and non-place, with outside and inside realities intermingling. It charts possible impossible escapes. I want to re-read it immediately.