Datura
"Shadows of Kafka and Strindberg are infused with Krohn’s love of her fragile characters... Aficionados of the surreal will find this a contemporary masterwork." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Our narrator works as an editor and writer for a magazine specializing in bringing oddities to light, a job that sends her exploring through a city that becomes by degrees ever less familiar. From a sunrise of automated cars working in silent precision to a possible vampire, she discovers that reality may not be as logical as you think—and that people are both odder and more ordinary as they might seem. Especially if you’re eating datura seeds. Especially when the legendary Voynich Manuscript is involved. Where will it all end? Pushed by the mysterious owner of the magazine, our narrator may wind up somewhere very strange indeed. From the author of Tainaron, and one of Finland's most respected writers.

"Datura is luminous--at once a secret history of losers, dreamers, and quacks, and a lyrical argument on the nature of reality. I thoroughly enjoyed it." – Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Olondria
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Datura
"Shadows of Kafka and Strindberg are infused with Krohn’s love of her fragile characters... Aficionados of the surreal will find this a contemporary masterwork." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Our narrator works as an editor and writer for a magazine specializing in bringing oddities to light, a job that sends her exploring through a city that becomes by degrees ever less familiar. From a sunrise of automated cars working in silent precision to a possible vampire, she discovers that reality may not be as logical as you think—and that people are both odder and more ordinary as they might seem. Especially if you’re eating datura seeds. Especially when the legendary Voynich Manuscript is involved. Where will it all end? Pushed by the mysterious owner of the magazine, our narrator may wind up somewhere very strange indeed. From the author of Tainaron, and one of Finland's most respected writers.

"Datura is luminous--at once a secret history of losers, dreamers, and quacks, and a lyrical argument on the nature of reality. I thoroughly enjoyed it." – Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Olondria
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"Shadows of Kafka and Strindberg are infused with Krohn’s love of her fragile characters... Aficionados of the surreal will find this a contemporary masterwork." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Our narrator works as an editor and writer for a magazine specializing in bringing oddities to light, a job that sends her exploring through a city that becomes by degrees ever less familiar. From a sunrise of automated cars working in silent precision to a possible vampire, she discovers that reality may not be as logical as you think—and that people are both odder and more ordinary as they might seem. Especially if you’re eating datura seeds. Especially when the legendary Voynich Manuscript is involved. Where will it all end? Pushed by the mysterious owner of the magazine, our narrator may wind up somewhere very strange indeed. From the author of Tainaron, and one of Finland's most respected writers.

"Datura is luminous--at once a secret history of losers, dreamers, and quacks, and a lyrical argument on the nature of reality. I thoroughly enjoyed it." – Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Olondria

Product Details

BN ID: 2940148596448
Publisher: Cheeky Frawg
Publication date: 09/27/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 202
File size: 880 KB

About the Author

Leena Krohn (born in 1947) is one of the most respected Finnish writers of her generation. In her large body of work for adults and children, Krohn deals with issues related to the boundary between reality and illusion, artificial intelligence, and issues of morality and conscience. Her short novel Tainaron: Mail From Another City was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award in 2005. Tainaron shares some affinities with the work of Kafka, while being utterly original. Each section of the novel illuminates the next, with the weird element serving both as strange adventure and parallel to the real world. It is one of the most important works of post-World War II dark fantasy.
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