Head: And Other Dark Tales

This is a collection of short-stories most of which have either been published previously and/or have won literary prizes. The tales are dark but literary. From a French reviewer: 'In most of these stories there is either a character struggling with his human shape (or mind) and wanting to become a simpler being (an animal) or trying to get back to a simpler form of himself (a baby), or there is strange (and often cruel) familial behaviors and relationships intervening in the process of becoming a grown-up. It's about the construction of a human being among people that might be close but still mysterious and sometimes cruel, or about the "deconstruction" of a human being and how the people around, although they are kind and devoted, are helpless before this change. ('Head' also tells the story of a deconstruction, but the other way around: where both the woman and the man [central characters] are fighting to help her get back to a "normal" state of humanity).'

(Revised 2022/2023)