![]() ![]() ![]() The journey takes them across dimensions and time where they encounter a host of wondrous, grotesque, and strange creatures. (This is a fairy tale in the tradition of the original blood-soaked Brothers Grimm tales, if the hourglass filled with blood on the cover didn’t tip you off.) Two of these servants, Thistle and Dora, manage to escape but must track down their tormenter who holds Thistle’s true name. ![]() The novel opens in a magical place called “the gardens” in which time doesn’t exist and rich immortals relax by murdering their servants. Their new novel, The Memory Theater (Pantheon), might be more easily classified as fantasy but is no less original. When you open a Tidbeck book, you truly don’t know what you are going to get. Their first novel, Amatka, sits somewhere between science fiction and Kafkaesque dream and follow colonists who farm mushrooms in a world where language transforms matter. Tidbeck’s first collection, Jagannath, includes a man who falls in love with an airship, a woman creating a child in a tin can with menstrual blood and a carrot, and strange birthing machines. At a time when more and more people are interested in “genre-bending” literature, the Swedish author Karin Tidbeck doesn’t bend genres so much as slip between them. Their works are elusive and impossible to pigeonhole. ![]()
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