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You do understand

eng

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fiction

You do understand

electronic resource

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Slovenian literature series

This collection of sharp, spare, occasionally absurd, cruel, touching, and yet always generous short-short fictions addresses the fundamental difficulty we have in making the people we love understand what we want and need. Demonstrating that language and intimacy are as much barriers between human beings as ways of connecting them, Andrej Blatnik here provides us with a guided tour of the slips, misunderstandings, and blind alleys we each manage to fall foul of on a daily basis-no closer to understanding the motives of our families, friends, lovers, or coworkers than we are those of a complete stranger...or, indeed, our own

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