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by Karin Tidbeck (Author), Elizabeth Hand (Introduction)

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“I have never read anything like Jagannath. Karin Tidbeck’s imagination is recognizably Nordic, but otherwise unclassifiable–quietly, intelligently, unutterably strange. And various. And ominous. And funny. And mysteriously tender. These are wonderful stories.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“Restrained and vivid, poised and strange, Tidbeck, with her impossible harmonies, is a vital voice.” – China Mieville

Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly fantastical short stories. Whether through the falsified historical record of the uniquely weird Swedish creature known as the “Pyret” or the title story, “Jagannath,” about a biological ark in the far future, Tidbeck’s unique imagination will enthrall, amuse, and unsettle you. How else to describe a collection that includes “Cloudberry Jam,” a story that opens with the line “I made you in a tin can”? Marvels, quirky character studies, and outright surreal monstrosities await you in the book widely praised by Ursula K. Le Guin, China Mieville, and Karen Joy Fowler. Introduction by Elizabeth Hand, afterword by the author. (Print version available in November.)

“Tidbeck has a gift for the uncanny and the unsettling. In these wonderful, subtle stories, magic arrives quietly. It comes from the forests or the earth or was always there in your own family or maybe exists in another realm entirely…leaving you slightly dazed and more than a little enchanted.” – Karen Joy Fowler

“Were this collection to contain only its biomechanoid wonder of a title story, it would still be amazing. Jagannath heralds the arrival of a bold and brilliant new voice, which I see too few of these days. You must read Karin Tidbeck.” – Caitlin R. Kiernan

“In Karin Tidbeck’s collection Jagannath, the mundane becomes strange and the strange familiar with near-Hitchcockian subtlety. I loved Tidbeck’s clean, classic prose. It creates beautifully eerie music for a twilight domain.” – Karen Lord

“I can’t think of when I last read a collection that blew me away the way that Jagannath has, or one that’s left me somewhat at a loss to describe just how strange and beautiful and haunting these tales are.” – Elizabeth Hand (from her introduction)

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File Size: 330 KB
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Publisher: Cheeky Frawg Books (September 22, 2012)
Publication Date: September 22, 2012
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B009FPQXJ8
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Beautifully weird, imaginative and engaging

By Berit Ellingsen on November 15, 2012

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Jagannath is a collection of 13 short stories of different lengths, all containing at least a hint of the imaginary, the unreal, and the weird, as allegories of alienation, otherness, and the taboo, but also as archetypal symbols in their own right.

The collection opens with Beatrice, a story about the many forms love can take, but how similar the pain is when that love goes unrequited. It's also a story about birth and the love between parents and children.

In Tidbeck's stories the process of birth and the love between parents and children is often difficult and painful, but always strong and touching, as in the sad Some Letters for Ove Lindström, the beautiful Cloudberry Jam, the darkly opulent Aunts, and the fantastic title story, Jagannath, about a living mothership/hive and its relationship to the offspring that is living inside their mother.

Another theme is the mysterious, the hidden, and the uncanny, arriving in the form of strange creatures or events, as in the stories of Miss Nyberg and I, Herr Cederberg, Who Is Arvid Pekon, and in particular, Pyret. The latter being an imaginary research article and report about a mysterious shapeshifting creature which seems to evolve into something increasingly human over time as it becomes more and more familiar with people and our way of life.

Other stories draw from themes encountered elsewhere in modern speculative literature, such as Rebecka, which is about life, ethics and religion in a world after the Second Coming, and Augusta Prima, which is set in a timeless and dream-like baroque world on the edge of ours.Read more ›

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Hauntingly beautiful at times

By lfrishkoff on November 22, 2012

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Some of these stories really clicked with me, while many other elicited only a 'meh'. The best fused Scandinavian folklore with the trials and tribulations of modernity, and evoked a haunting sense of lack-of-place and the need to belong. Most of these involved humans coming to terms with brushes (or relations) with the supernatural--familial connections to faeries (or other beings) and the like. But one of my favorites, Augusta Prima, turned the tables, and described the bizarre and sadistic faery court untouched by the conventional rules of time and space, where a brush with human knowledge (the knowledge of the existence of time) leads to isolation and ostracism. This one has hints of A Midsummer Night's Dream gone horribly awry, mixed with the biblical references to being cast out of the garden, along with a bit of the Lovecraft's perspective from The Call of Cthulu: "The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents" etc.

Altogether certainly worth a read. Some of these stories will likely stick with you (and those that you find mediocre you'll rapidly forget, so no harm done).

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

Lovely, Haunting, and Wondrous Strange...

By Greg Bossert on November 10, 2012

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"Jagannath"--the first English collection from Swedish author Karin Tidbeck--is the most startlingly original and hauntingly beautiful book I've read in the last few years. It's tempting to describe Ms. Tidbeck's ideas and language in (no doubt clichéd) Nordic terms: long winter twilight and crisp clear lines, a no-nonsense modernism and a fey forest folklore. But these stories come from some realm far more strange and haunted.
It's difficult--and probably useless--to assign these stories to any particular genre or style. There are elements of Borges's academic literary fantasies and of García Márquez'a folkloric Magic Realism, of a darkly twisted Lewis Carroll and a wryly modest Kafka. And over all there is a timelessness, originality, and clarity of language that will appeal to readers of fantastic and literary fiction alike. It's the sort of book you will reread (I've been through it twice already) and lend to (or buy for) friends.
The book is getting rave reviews from sites like NPR and Publisher's Weekly and from authors like Ursula K. Le Guin, China Miéville, and Elizabeth Hand. I'm betting it will be in the running for a slew of awards in the coming year.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Visionary, subtle, incisive

By Stefan VINE VOICE on November 30, 2012

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Where do they keep coming from? Over the last handful of weeks I've read Near + Far by Cat Rambo, At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson, and Errantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand--three new collections of short stories, all from small presses, all by female authors, and all superb. And then, just when I think it can't get any better, along comes Karin Tidbeck's debut collection Jagannath, which may just be the best one of the bunch. If you take into account that this is Tidbeck's debut collection in English and that it was translated from Swedish to English by the author herself, it's hard not to be awed by the sheer level of talent on display here.

Karin Tidbeck had been writing and publishing short stories in Swedish for several years when, given the relatively small number of venues for short speculative fiction in her homeland, she decided to set her sights on the English language markets. She applied for and was accepted into the prestigious Clarion Writers Workshop, translated some of her own stories into English, and lo and behold, slowly her name started popping up in English language publications. The first time I spotted her was in last year's inaugural issue of Unstuck Annual (which I reviewed for Tor.com here) with the quirky, tender story "Cloudberry Jam", but I freely confess that, at that time, I had no idea yet of what she was really capable of. Thanks to Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's Cheeky Frawg imprint, we now have a lovely, slim volume of Karin Tidbeck's stunning short fiction.

In her introduction to this collection, Elizabeth Hand writes that it's "rare, almost unheard of, to encounter an author so extraordinarily gifted she appears to have sprung full-blown into the literary world, like Athena from the head of Zeus.Read more ›

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These stories are modern fiction jewels. There are scents of the masters of the weird genre, yet they bloom with a very unique and disparate imaginarium.

Published 3 months ago by Nast Marrero

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Mesmerizing. That's the easiest way for me to describe this collection. These are some of the most beautifully haunting short stories I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Read more

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