Twelve new stories that burn like a fever in the blood. The opening piece is a kind of modern fairy tale, in which a very stoned young woman invades a stranger's home and claims she belongs there. In another, a screenwriter succumbs to the deceptive power of his own fiction, while in the next, a single mother defends a Texas butterfly sanctuary against the right-wing zealots who seek to isolate it with the border wall. Add to these scenarios a 3D-printed gun, snow in July, a fateful wasp sting and the dystopian year 2036, in which Greenland has long since become part of Trump's America, and more, much more, including a man-eating tiger and the menace of a suburban swimming pool. Boyle's imagination knows no bounds, leaping and snapping like a whip laying bare the tender epidermis of our society. His stories are sometimes funny, often disturbing, always surprising, and at times breathtaking. Great storytelling. (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)

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T. Coraghessan Boyle, 1948 in Peekskill, N.Y., geboren, ist der Autor von zahlreichen Romanen und Erzählungen, die in viele Sprachen übersetzt wurden. Er wurde unter anderem mit dem PEN/Faulkner-Preis, dem Prix Médicis, dem Henry David Thoreau Prize und dem Rea Award für Kurzgeschichten ausgezeichnet. Bei Hanser erschienen zuletzt u.a. »Sprich mit mir« (Roman 2021), »Blue Skies« (Roman, 2023), »I Walk Between the Raindrops« (Storys, 2024) und »No Way Home« (Roman, 2025).