{"product_id":"9781913861759-sleep-of-birds","title":"The Sleep of Birds","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKUNAI 5\u003cbr\u003eA selection of short stories by Thomas Vaiseta published in pamphlet form as part of the KUNAI (meaning: 'bodies') series and translated from Lithuanian by Jeremy Hill. From the people who brought you KESHIKI and YEOYU.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“So it was that a happy historical coincidence came to be: sex came into my life after the fall of the Soviet Empire…\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo charged and psychologically intriguing short stories that experiment entertainingly within a contemporary gothic mode. In one, a doctor relates his dark fascination with a patient as things fall apart; in the other a sexual awakening has tragic and transgressive consequences; both, in lucid prose, speak emblematically of shifts or breakdowns of social orders more broadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40808194310241,"sku":"9781913861759","price":7.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28314284.jpg?v=1722498863","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781913861759-sleep-of-birds","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}