Fiction Books Collection November 28, 2025 EPUB

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The Week of Colors by Elena Garro

General:

Name: The Week of Colors by Elena Garro
Format: epub
Size: 18.38 MB

Book:

Title: A Different Type of Poison
Author: Liz Alterman
Language: English
Year: 2025
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: One More Page Press
ISBN: 0030686822
Total pages: 1312 str.

Description:

From the acclaimed author of Beasts of a Little Land and City of Night Birds, an exquisite, globetrotting story collection about humans in precarious balance with the natural world
Spanning multiple locales and epochs, and rendered in fine detail and vivid color, this transportive collection shows what it means to live as human inhabitants on our one miraculous planet. Lyrical, at times hilarious, and always heartfelt, each of these ten stories is a reflection of individual choice in the face of man-made apocalypse: in a near-future Seoul, where air pollution has become so fatal that the city has been encased in a translucent biodome, a civil engineer charged with its upkeep contemplates an arranged marriage. A painter, disenchanted with New York City, travels to the South of France and falls into a dalliance with an entrepreneur who claims to have invented a new color. And on an island where the Indian and Pacific Oceans meet, upon which other countries...