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Serbian fantasist Zivkovic's new suite of stories is lighter in tone than any of the five collected in Impossible Stories (2006). It amuses more than it disturbs, though that amusement is tinged with sad, worldly wisdom. The even-numbered stories in it are told in first person, the odd-numbered in third person. Each story is entitled with the object of its collector protagonist's acquisitive desire, which can be intangible ("Days," "Dreams," "Hopes"), material ("Fingernails," "Photographs," "Clippings"), or conceptual ("Words," "Emails," "Stories"). Inevitably, the last story is that of a collector of collections: to wit, the 11 explained in the previous stories. In every story, either the collector or the person who adds to a collection comes to or is foretold an ending of sorts, usually of his or her life—on Earth, at any rate. The common main theme may be mortality. By contrast, the stand-alone story "The Teashop," in which a woman orders tea made of stories, seems to be about immortality. The crystalline prose of suite and stand-alone alike makes the stories exquisite to read. Olson, Ray
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