Full name: Jagannath: Stories

Author: Karin Tidbeck Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Award winners, Fantasy, Fiction, Science fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780985790400 0985790407

Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly fantastical stories. Whether through the falsified historical record of the uniquely weird Swedish creature known as the "Pyret" or the title story, "Jagannath," about a biological ark in the far future, Tidbeck's unique imagination will enthrall, amuse, and unsettle you. How else to describe a collection that includes "Cloudberry Jam," a story that opens with the line "I made you in a tin can"? Marvels, quirky character studies, and outright surreal monstrosities await you in what is likely to be one of the most talked-about short story collections of the year. Tidbeck is a rising star in her native country, having published a collection there in Swedish, won a prestigious literary grant, and just sold her first novel to Sweden's largest publisher. A graduate of the iconic Clarion Writer's Workshop at the University of California, San Diego, in 2010, her publication history includes Weird Tales, Shimmer Magazine, Unstuck Annual and the anthology Odd. Similar books: The Third Bear by Jeff VanderMeer Cartomancy by Mary Gentle The Other Nineteenth Century by Avram Davidson At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers Tender by Sofia Samatar Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford Somewhere Beneath Those Waves by Sarah Monette Strange Itineraries by Tim Powers Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin Saffron and Brimstone by Elizabeth Hand Looking for Jake and Other Stories by China Mieville What I Didn't See by Karen Joy Fowler Angels & Visitations by Neil Gaiman Binti by Nnedi Okorafor The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu From These Ashes by Fredric Brown Perfect State by Brandon Sanderson The Best of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown