Head Full of Joy By Ognjen SpahiÔc (author), Will Firth (translator)

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Paperback

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Wordery

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Deep vellum publishing

Head Full of Joy : Dalkey Archive Press : 9781628972733 : 1628972734 : 01 Oct 2018 : Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. This collection of sixteen stories takes us on an eccentric tour of contemporary existence. A lonely man rants about everything under the sun, including the sun itself. A vampire recounts the history and travails of the Balkans' bloodsucking community. A grief-stricken widower leads his son on a frantic search through the night. A husband and his pregnant wife argue, in Raymond Carver-like fashion, over whether Carver's stories will have a negative influence on the baby. In prose rich with Nabokovian detail and barroom humor, Spahic paints a portrait of a world so strange, it could only exist in the twenty-first century.

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