Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories Philosophy No Friend But the Mountains

No Friend But the Mountains is an extraordinary account -- one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world

born the same year and now living in the same great city (Buenos Aires) as César Aira

the soul of the black South gained one of its most articulate interpreters

heralded by Calvino as an "erudite acrobat who twirls around the trapeze of rhetoric above the timeless void of meaning

unstoppably peripatetic writer named Elias Canetti

Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories Philosophy No Friend But the MountainsTitle: Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories Author: Kate Atkinson ISBN: 9780593469880 Publisher: Vintage Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: A collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, "Stunning A master class in literary worldbuilding Full of speculative glee, but tinged with poignancy."