Angélica Gorodischer

Kalpa Imperial

The Greatest Empire That Never Was

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This is the first of Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories. But this is much more than a simple political allegory or fable. It is also a celebration of the power of storytelling. Gorodischer and translator Ursula K. Le Guin are a w… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Le Guin, Ursula K. (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-61873-019-0
EAN: 9781618730190
Produktnummer: 22595059
Verlag: Small Beer Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 246 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 237 KB

Über den Autor

Angélica Gorodischer was born in 1929 in Buenos Aires and has lived most of her life in Rosario, Argentina. She is the author of nineteen books. From her first book of stories, she has displayed a mastery of science-fiction themes, handled with her own personal slant, and exemplary of the South American fantasy tradition.