The Cucumber King of Kedainiai
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Fiction. Characters in Wendell Mayo's collection, THE CUCUMBER KING OF K?DAINIAI, are one of a kind. A Lithuanian mafia boss strives to achieve world domination with black market cucumbers. A starving Russian artist discovers he can profit by selling paint-by-numbers portraits of former General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Two spiders re-enact the Cold War years in the bathtub of an abandoned Soviet sanatorium. A woman is interrogated by former-KGB police about the whereabouts of an American she's never met. A man trades a bag of cold fried pike for clues about his Lithuanian ancestors. The concluding narrative, "The Universal Store," assembles all in a kind of marketplace of the heart, where the new realities of an Eastern Europe adapting to change since the fall of the Berlin Wall emerge. These stories by turn are not only dark, comical, surrealbut feel terribly true.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0983115060
ISBN13:9780983115069
Release Date:October 2013
Publisher:Subito Press
Length:124 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"
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