Flesh-Coloured Dominoes

Flesh-Coloured Dominoes

Zigmunds Skujins
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Author:  Zigmunds Skujins
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  256
Publisher:  Arcadia Books
Year:  2019
ISBN:  9781911350637

When Baroness Valtraute von Bruegen's officer husband's body is severed in two she is delighted to find that the lower half has been sewn onto the upper body of the humble local Captain Ulste. She conceives a child only to see the return of her husband in one piece. What happens next is both indescribably funny and darkly painful. A beautifully written Surrealist novel cum political allegory, Flesh-Coloured Dominoes transports the reader between 18th-century Baltic gentry and the narrator's life in the modern world. The connection between the two narratives gradually becomes clear in a mesmerising fantasy of love, lust, and loss as Skijuns creates a work of sublime art that is funny, moving, enlightening and philosophical in equal measure.

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