![]() ![]() A fast-moving portrait of expat artists, authors, and academics on fellowships at the Villa Romana in Florence, European Story for Avner Shats centers on a trio of three indelible characters: an Israeli writer vaguely reminiscent of Shats, a German specialist in ancient lint, and a beautiful and fraudulent Russian performance artist. ![]() It flows with a narrative spin only the singular Zink could pull off - including both authentic and fictional versions of characters from Shats's life and work such as the author herself. Sailing Towards the Sunset by Avner Shats is Zink's faux-translation of Shats's 1998 novel Lashut El Hashkia ("Sailing Towards the Sunset"). Now, this tongue-in-cheek homage is available to Nell's growing readership for the first time, accompanied by a second dazzling and imaginative work that breathes - at Shats's request - the perfumed air of the Old Europe and stars a figure very much like Shats. Unable to read his Hebrew, she was forced to start from scratch. Years ago, Nell Zink resolved to write a book for her friend, the Israeli novelist Avner Shats, that would mirror his remarkable style. ![]() From the brilliant and incisive author of Mislaid - "a writer of extraordinary talent and range" (Jonathan Franzen) whose "capacity for inventions is immense" (BookForum) - comes a new collection of her earliest work: two wildly funny novellas ( Sailing Towards the Sunset by Avner Shats and European Story for Avner Shats) available in one compact volume. ![]()
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