![]() ![]() ![]() Tidbeck seems to be fascinated with places and times where the potential for magic is most present - especially the Nordic twilight. ![]() Grounded by her beautiful and minimalist prose (she wrote the English translation herself), Tidbeck blurs the distinction between real and unreal, what is and what cannot be. Shifting seamlessly between genres and moods, these 13 stories reject easy classification, always pointing towards the unclear and barely understood. In her debut short story collection, Jagannath - first published in English by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer in 2012, now repackaged by Vintage - the Swedish writer Karin Tidbeck destroys this pessimism with stories that feel, for the first time in a long time, truly new. As speculative fiction has become more popular and “mainstream” over the past few decades, some concepts and settings that once felt fresh and new have begun to grow stale, leading a few critics to question whether we have pushed the genre to its limit. ![]()
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