$16 136pp / paperback
978-0-9844693-3-8
These stories introduce English-language readers to the detective Bobby Potemkine and his musical dog Djinn—and they come to us offering, among other things, mystery, romance, maritime-adventure, and a very angry noodle named Auguste.
“With the calm strangeness of dreams, and humor deepened by a hint of melancholy, these wonderful stories fool around on the frontiers of the imagination. All musical dogs, woolly crabs, children and other detectives of the not-yet-invented should own this book.” —SHELLEY JACKSON
“Humane, impossible, homely and alien, Draeger’s extraordinary stories are as close to dreams as fiction can be.” —CHINA MIÉVILLE
Manuela Draeger belongs to a community of imaginary authors. Since 2002, she has published novels for adolescents.
Brian Evenson is the author of ten books of fiction, most recently the limited-edition novella Baby Leg, published by New York Tyrant Press in 2009. In 2009 he also published the novel Last Days (which won the American Library Association’s award for Best Horror Novel of 2009) and the story collection Fugue State. He lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown University’s Literary Arts Department.
Valerie Evenson lives in Provo, Utah, where she studies French and Environmental Science at Brigham Young University. “Our Baby Pelicans” is her first published translation.
commissioned from Yelena Bryksenkova
Yelena Bryksenkova was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia and migrated to the Great Lakes eight years later. Her favorites include world exploration, fancy urns, books, elephants, folklore, elaborate textiles, Japanese visual culture, Russian ballet, Napoleon Bonaparte, silent cinema, and mysterious circumstances. In 2010, Yelena earned her BFA in illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She lives in Baltimore. |