Subtle, stylish, at once forthrightly simple and ingeniously complex, the pieces gathered here are compelling and penetrating explorations of cultural difference and psychological crisis, regret and reconciliation. It is a marvelous literary labyrinth, a realm of memory palaces, eerie doppelgangers, terrifying theocracies, implosive revelations. Here time travel, sordid and ludicrous, becomes emblematic of how all lives are led; here, disease is an index to how the past is rewritten; here, the Other, extravagantly alien or simply alienated, can collapse into the Self with the suddenness of a lethal gunshot.

Contents:

• The Tourist
• The Breakthrough
• A Man on Crutches
• Get a Grip
• Untitled 4
• Tachycardia
• Christmas in Jaisalmer
• Self Portrait, with Melanoma, Final Draft
• If Lions Could Speak
• The Lost Sepulcher of Huascar Capec
• The Last Homosexual
• Bukavu Dreams
• Rangriver Fell