Butterfly Man Other Stories

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This inventive, quietly uncanny collection showcases one of Estonia’s most intriguing new literary voices, blending the ordinary with the fantastical in stories where transformation reshapes both the characters and those who witness them.

In “The Butterfly Man,” a timid magician is recruited by a circus not for his tricks but for the living butterflies that lift from his body whenever his emotions stir. “The Beauty Who Had Seen It All” follows a morally dubious night watchman who discovers the power of invisibility and uses it to seduce a woman whose desires are as jaded as his intentions. “The High Season” centers on a prickly poet whose loyal admirers guard him from afar as he becomes a permanent fixture — quite literally — in the café he haunts.

Together, these stories explore how strange metamorphoses expose hidden desires, vulnerabilities and the surreal edges of everyday life.

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Author: M. Heinsaar
Language: Angļu valoda
Year of publication: 2018
Manufacturer: Momentum Books
Cover type: Soft cover
Number of pages: 80
product.Svars: 0.054 kg
ISBN code: 9781911475354

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These stories, by one of the rising stars of Estonian literature, depict ordinary people undergoing extraordinary metamorphoses; it is not only their own lives that are changed forever, but also those of the bystanders drawn in by their fascinating particularities.

In "The Butterfly Man," a small-time, self-effacing magician is hired to join a circus -- not on account of his negligible conjuring skills, but because of the exotic butterflies that peel away from him when his emotions are excited. The night watchman in "The Beauty Who Had Seen It All," a man of base, amoral inclinations, discovers the power of invisibility --and seduces a beautiful woman with jaded tastes. "The High Season" tells of an aloof, cantankerous poet whose devotees remain protective of him even at a distance, guarding him at a local caf where he drinks endless cups of coffee and becomes a fixture -- literally.