Name: Toad. and Ten Short Stories (en Inglés)
SKU: 67373118
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Author: Nan-Yao Su

portada Toad. and Ten Short Stories (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Independently published

Autor

Nan-Yao Su

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x0.2 cm

ISBN13

9798249453008

Toad. and Ten Short Stories (en Inglés)

Nan-Yao Su (Autor) · Independently published · Tapa Blanda

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Toad and Ten Short Stories follows Joe-an aging scientist with an unruly conscience and a long memory-through kitchens, courtyards, hotel corridors, cemeteries, and ruined sacred sites where ordinary life tilts, almost imperceptibly, into the uncanny. In these eleven pieces, a door opens without cause, a rescued toad leaves a message of thanks, portraits gaze back with warmth or judgment, and a childhood gleaner may have been a deity-or simply someone pushed to the margins. Joe's rational mind keeps offering mechanisms-air pressure, vertigo, drafts, placebo-yet each explanation leaves a remainder: a warm pane of glass, an impossible light in a photograph, a child who is and is not under a tree, a man in a fortress who resembles the living. Moving from Taiwan's ancestral farmhouse to New Orleans and Puerto Rico, and from Roman rubble beneath a church floor to questions of meat, plants, and photosynthesis, these stories do not ask the reader to believe in ghosts; they ask the reader to notice how presence persists-through grief, through attention, through the places where the past presses quietly into the present.