A Brief Alphabet of Torture: Stories by Nao, VI Khi

A Brief Alphabet of Torture: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781573660617)

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A Brief Alphabet of Torture: Stories by Nao, VI Khi

A Brief Alphabet of Torture: Stories

$18.95
A Brief Alphabet of Torture: Stories by Nao, VI Khi

A Brief Alphabet of Torture: Stories

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize

An unflinching and riveting meditation on the pain that attends every facet of existence--love and sacrifice and intimacy and beauty--a biography of torture.

Like all of Vi Khi Nao's acclaimed and award-winning work, A Brief Alphabet of Torture bleeds across many modes and genres--poetry, essay, fiction, drama--and itself almost constitutes a novel of a different kind. Each tale captures the emotional, physical, psychological, political, and artistic concerns that pervade life like breath and which, even when very beautiful, are filled with pain.

These stories are all facets of Nao's imagination that define the way she views creation, sexuality, violence, and the role of life in an ontological system that relies heavily on cultural, social, and artistic duress. Some stories like "Winter Rose" and "I Love You Me Neither" rise above the boundaries of pain to places of beauty and grace and love, where pain has no place, but make clear how rare such moments appear in life.

Author: VI Khi Nao
ISBN-10: 1573660612
ISBN-13: 9781573660617
Publisher: FC2
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2017
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
By VI Khi Nao
By VI Khi Nao
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Vi Khi Nao is the author of the novel Fish in Exile and the poetry collection The Old Philosopher, which won the 2014 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her work includes poetry, fiction, film, and cross-genre collaboration.

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