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Vacant Lot

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Fiction. Translated from the French by Laird Hunt. Set in a city much like Beirut in the aftermath of bloody civil war, a former mercenary relates his fate and that of others of his kind after the peace. The world is rapidly healing itself--people getting back to their lives, the city being rebuilt. But he is unable to leave the site his crimes. Rohe's narrative is striking in its understatement: much of the work's power lies in what's unsaid, what's hinted and inferred. Sentences run on and on or stop short as if they've reached a dead end. Repetition is a kind of entrenchment, a being stuck, perhaps in the density of poetry.

Language: English

Pages: 88

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Counterpath Press

Release: November 15, 2010

ISBN: 1933996218

ISBN 13: 9781933996219

Vacant Lot

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Fiction. Translated from the French by Laird Hunt. Set in a city much like Beirut in the aftermath of bloody civil war, a former mercenary relates his fate and that of others of his kind after the peace. The world is rapidly healing itself--people getting back to their lives, the city being rebuilt. But he is unable to leave the site his crimes. Rohe's narrative is striking in its understatement: much of the work's power lies in what's unsaid, what's hinted and inferred. Sentences run on and on or stop short as if they've reached a dead end. Repetition is a kind of entrenchment, a being stuck, perhaps in the density of poetry.

Language: English

Pages: 88

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Counterpath Press

Release: November 15, 2010

ISBN: 1933996218

ISBN 13: 9781933996219

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