Noir in the city – short stories set in BANGKOK
Pelt and Other Stories
Location(s): World
Genre(s): Short Stories
Era(s): Contemporary
Catherine McNamara s stories take the reader on a pulsing, eloquent journey through post-colonial migration, and loss and decline in Europe. She deals with dirty family secrets, the stealth of AIDS, misunderstood gay love and neglected children. In her continental pieces she shows Europe s laundered, subjugated environment and her melancholy urbanites. Some stories are interlinked. Two foolhardy snowboarders challenge the savagery of mountain weather in the Dolomites. A Ghanaian woman strokes across a pool in the tropics, flaunting her pregnant belly before her lover s partner. A sex worker is enlisted to care for her Italian lover s elderly parents. Hit by a car in Brussels, a young woman returns to her doctor boyfriend. Pelt and Other Stories lingers on the cusp between Europe and Africa, between ancient sentiments and modern disquiet.
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