Bibliograph

Jewel box, stories, E. Lily Yu

Type

Label

Jewel box, stories, E. Lily Yu

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Jewel box

Oclc number

1404073685

Responsibility statement

E. Lily Yu

Sub title

stories

Summary

The strange, the sublime, and the monstrous confront one another with astonishing consequences in this collection of twenty-two stories from award-winning writer E. Lily Yu. In the village of Yiwei, a fallen wasp nest unfurls into a beautifully accurate map. In a field in Louisiana, birdwatchers forge an indelible connection over a shared glimpse of a Vermilion Flycatcher, and fall. In Nineveh, a judge who prides himself on impartiality finds himself questioned by a mysterious god. On a nameless shore, a small monster searches for refuge and finds unexpected courage. At turns bittersweet and boundary-breaking, poignant and profound, these twenty-two stories sing, as the oldest fables do, of what it means to be alive in this strange, terrible, beautiful world. For readers who loved the intelligence and compassion in Kim Fu's Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century and the dreamlike prose of Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners, this collection introduces the short fiction of E. Lily Yu, winner of the Astounding Award for Best New Writer and author of the Washington Book Award-winning novel On Fragile Waves, praised by the New York Times Book Review as "devastating and perfect."

Table Of Contents

The pilgrim and the angel -- The lamp at the turning -- The cartographer wasps and the anarchist bees -- The lion god and the two gates -- Music for the underworld -- Green glass: a love story -- Ilse, who saw clearly -- The doing and undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi -- The wretched and the beautiful -- The Urashima effect -- Braid of days and wake of nights -- Local stop on the floating train -- The witch of Orion waste and the boy knight -- The eve of the planet of Ys -- Courtship displays of the American birder -- The no-one girl and the flower of the farther shore -- The time invariance of snow -- Three variations on a theme of imperial attire -- The cat's tale -- The valley of wounded deer -- The view from the top of the stair -- Small monsters.

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