Research Catalog

Title

Games with Greta & other stories / Suzana Tratnik ; translated by Michael Biggins, Tamara Soban, Špela Bibič, Mojca Šoštarko, and Elizabeta Žargi.

Author

Tratnik, Suzana

Publication

• Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Biggins, Michael
• Soban, Tamara
• Bibič, Špela
• Šoštarko, Mojca
• Žargi, Elizabeta

Description

127 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"The protagonists of Suzana Tratnik's short stories all share a sense of isolation on society's margins. Whether non-participants in the mainstream, rebels against it, or its occasional victims, they're well practiced at recognizing the herd instinct in action. From the six-year-old girl who discovers transgressive new games to play with her glamorous cousin from England; to a decidedly unusual schoolchild inventing a novel way of getting back at playground bullies; to young women who find their love interests drifting away, seduced by conventional notions of popularity and success; to a narrator who suddenly finds herself on no ordinary train trip through the heart of Slovenia -- these are characters and stories that deftly and sardonically underscore the phantom nature of "normalcy" itself and the risks of its tyranny for dissenters and conformists alike" --

Series Statement

Slovenian literature series

Uniform Title

• Short stories. Selections. English
• Slovenian literature series (Dalkey Archive Press)

Alternative Title

• Short stories.
• Games with Greta and other stories

Subject

• Social distance > Fiction
• Social isolation > Fiction
• Slovenia > Fiction

Note

• A new collection of stories that has not appeared together before in any language.
• Translated from the Slovenian.

Contents

Games with Greta -- Below zero -- Sewing the princess -- Key to the restroom -- The subway -- Letters from a prisoner -- Proculin -- Trips are cheaper now, too -- Discretion guaranteed -- Letters without envelopes -- The greenhouse -- Geographical positions -- Something I've never understood about taking the train.

Call Number

JFD 17-929

ISBN

• 9781628971415
• 162897141X

LCCN

• 2016030598
• 40026704591

OCLC

969827734

Author

Tratnik, Suzana, author.

Title

Games with Greta & other stories / Suzana Tratnik ; translated by Michael Biggins, Tamara Soban, Špela Bibič, Mojca Šoštarko, and Elizabeta Žargi.

Publisher

Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Slovenian literature series

Slovenian literature series (Dalkey Archive Press)

Added Author

Biggins, Michael, translator.

Soban, Tamara, translator.

Bibič, Špela, translator.

Šoštarko, Mojca, translator.

Žargi, Elizabeta, translator.

Other Standard Identifier

40026704591

Research Call Number

JFD 17-929