"In this collection of literary, fantastical stories, a rhinoceros, in South Africa, changes into a woman and confronts the hunter who killed her mate and young; in Mussolini's Italy, the Grendel-like Pinocchio fights to survive; a drug addict's shadow is turning into her deceased mother; a young girl, suffering from memory loss, staying at an orphanage in Germany, discovers she is actually a forty-year-old dwarfish Nazi; a brilliant plastic surgeon kidnaps the boy responsible for his son's death (suicide, from cyber ...
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"In this collection of literary, fantastical stories, a rhinoceros, in South Africa, changes into a woman and confronts the hunter who killed her mate and young; in Mussolini's Italy, the Grendel-like Pinocchio fights to survive; a drug addict's shadow is turning into her deceased mother; a young girl, suffering from memory loss, staying at an orphanage in Germany, discovers she is actually a forty-year-old dwarfish Nazi; a brilliant plastic surgeon kidnaps the boy responsible for his son's death (suicide, from cyber bullying), and transforms him into his son's likeness, with horrific consequences; a hermaphrodite winds up on a mysterious island, where adolescents in a penal colony (un)naturally change genders; a disturbed man has an obsession with symmetry and twos, including his Siamese twin daughters; a diminutive spy finds himself trapped in a time loop with the Angel of Death, Josef Mengele; a frail young man falls in love with a vibrant Aboriginal woman, with disastrous, and miraculous, results, in turn of the century Australia; a trauma from the past affects a man's perception in the present; a deformed, failed theater owner finds himself fighting on the front lines for England during WW2; a troubled teenager finds a cartoonish female's morbidly obese body with the head inside a hollowed-out torso in her bedroom and learns valuable lessons in life; Edith Liddell, an aspiring actress, gets cast in the role of a lifetime: playing the part of her sister, Alice, in a movie, and finds out that Hollywood is stranger than Wonderland; and an anthropomorphic weasel steals the eyes of children and is forced to make a deal with the Devil after he accidentally takes the eyes of a blind boy. The book is a mad amalgam of fairytale and magic realism, a ruby slipper escape from real life for the fiction reader"--
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