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

• Tratnik, Suzana > Translations into English
• Social distance > Fiction
• Social isolation > Fiction
• Social distance
• Social isolation
• Slovenia > Fiction
• Slovenia

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Fiction.

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781628971415
• 162897141X

LCCN

^^2016030598

OCLC

• 969827734
• SCSB-11687778

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library