thrums with rhythm and life
In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons' performance
Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live
There are threatening phone calls
Dark Neighbourhood heralds the arrival of a strikingly original new voice in fiction
Kleinzeit Lydia Davis thrums with rhythm and life'An original a delight to read' The Times On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a quest involving, among other things, a glockenspiel, sheets of yellow paper, Orpheus, the Underground and that dirty chimpanzee, Death. 'Kleinzeit, is a sort