Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling / ISBN 9780140447408 / 562-page paperback from Penguin Classics
Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book
once you start seeing these predatory fowl everywhere
“I’m not in this business primarily to describe or explain or entertain
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The Road to the City - Natalia Ginzburg Krautrock Strange Tales from a ChineseThe Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Gini Alhadeff ISBN 9780811234757 88 page hardback from New Directions, published 2023 *** A magnificently stark book within the smallness of one poor, muddled, provincial life, Natalia Ginzburg finds enormous pain and loss An almost unbearably intimate novella, The Road to the City concentrates on a young woman barely awake to life, who fumbles through her days: she is fickle yet kind, greedy yet