2024 LOCUS AWARD WINNER, BEST COLLECTION AND BEST NOVELETTE FOR 'PRINCE HAT UNDERGROUND'Seven modern fairytales from Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan.Leaving behind the enchanted castles, deep, dark woods and gingerbread cottages of fairytales for airport waiting rooms, alien planets and a cannabis farm run by a team of hospitable cats, White Cat, Black Dog offers a fresh take on the stories that you thought you knew. Here you'll find stoner students, failing actors and stranded professors questing for love, revenge or even just a sense of purpose. Poised on the edges between magic, modernity and mundanity, this collection will remind you once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the realm of short fiction.Don't stray from the path!Not without Kelly Link as your guide.'Uncanny brilliance' Sunday Times'An expert illusionist' New Yorker'Link is a genius' LA Times'Thrilling... glittering' Spectator'A short story sorceress' Washington Post'Joyful... awe-inspiring' Jessamine Chan'Contains all the good stuff' Bustle'Magically transporting' Salon'Wonderfully told' BuzzFeed'Liable to linger in your mind' Today'Enchanting' Publishers Weekly'Wondrous' Stephen Graham Jones'This book is sublime' Emma Straub'Enchanting... unsettling' Kiersten White'Glorious and bewitching' Clare BeamsTales you live inside' Victor Lavalle'Luminous... surreal' Kate Mascarenhas

Drawing inspiration from fairy tales. Link contemporises them and shapes them in the unexpected forms that only she knows how

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Kelly Link is the author of White Cat, Black Dog; Get in Trouble, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; Magic for Beginners; Stranger Things Happen; and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have been published in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a MacArthur Genius Grant fellow and has received a grant from the National Endowment
for the Arts. She is the co- founder of Small Beer Press and co-edits the occasional zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. She is also the co- owner of Book Moon, an independent bookstore in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

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Seven modern fairytales from Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan. Leaving behind the enchanted castles, deep, dark woods and gingerbread cottages of fairytales for airport waiting rooms, alien planets and a cannabis farm run by a team of hospitable cats, White Cat, Black Dog offers a fresh take on the stories that you thought you knew. Here you'll find stoner students, failing actors and stranded professors questing for love, revenge or even just a sense of purpose. Poised on the edges between magic, modernity and mundanity, White Cat, Black Dog will delight, beguile, occasionally horrify, and remind you once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the realm of short fiction. Don't stray from the path! Not without Kelly Link as your guide. 'Uncanny brilliance' Sunday Times 'An expert illusionist' New Yorker 'Link is a genius' LA Times 'Thrilling... glittering' Spectator 'A short story sorceress' Washington Post 'Joyful... awe-inspiring' Jessamine Chan 'Contains all the good stuff' Bustle 'Magically transporting' Salon 'Wonderfully told' BuzzFeed *'*Liable to linger in your mind' Today 'Enchanting' Publishers Weekly 'Wondrous' Stephen Graham Jones 'This book is sublime' Emma Straub 'Enchanting... unsettling' Kiersten White 'Glorious and bewitching' Clare Beams Tales you live inside' Victor Lavalle 'Luminous... surreal' Kate Mascarenhas

Zusammenfassung
Seven reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern world.