· Jagannath is Karin Tidbeck's first collection of stories. Rebecka Eriksson. No less odd and disconcerting is "Pyret [Py:ret]," a brilliant, if more traditional, fantasy story disguised, in the Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Karin Tidbeck has 50 books on Goodreads with ratings. Karin Tidbeck’s most popular book is The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6). · "Jagannath"--the first English collection from Swedish author Karin Tidbeck--is the most startlingly original and hauntingly beautiful book I've read in the last few years. It's tempting to describe Ms. Tidbeck's ideas and language in (no doubt clichéd) Nordic terms: long winter twilight and crisp clear lines, a no-nonsense modernism and a fey forest folklore/5(66).
What ultimately makes Jagannath so wonderful is that however far Tidbeck strays from reality, she never loses a powerful undercurrent of human empathy." —Chicago Review of Books "Karin Tidbeck consistently displays staggering levels of originality, skill and confidence. At only pages, Jagannath is a small book, but the joy, dread, and wonder it evokes is immense. RATING 9 / 10 TAGS fantasy horror Karin Tidbeck sweden Swedish fiction weird fiction. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
An award-winning debut story collection by Karin Tidbeck, author of Amatka and heir to Borges, Le Guin, and Lovecraft. A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time. Jagannath is a collection of thirteen short stories by Swedish author, Karin Tidbeck. The stories are written in English, but have a distinct Nordic feel. Not very well known in the U.S., her writing style reminded me of Jonathan Carroll, whose genre might best be described as speculative fiction: a mixture of fantasy and folklore, with side orders of whimsy and weird. Visionary, Subtle, Incisive: Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck Stefan Raets. Thu Nov 15, Karin Tidbeck had been writing and publishing short stories in Swedish for several years when, given the.
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