Jewel Box: Stories
I am put into a similar worshipful and ecstatic frame of mind. These fabulaic heterogenous and ingenious mini-masterpieces (including some hard-edged SF) bring to mind...past masters ... This must-have collection, monumental yet never overwrought, shows Yu sharing the same stage as Salman Rushdie and other fine fabulists of our lucky era.
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Brilliant, sparkling ... Inanimate objects take on wondrous life ... The prose is exquisite on a sentence-by-sentence level ... The realistic stories in the collection are heartrending ... An enchantment.
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An astonishing collection of stories ranging from the merely beautiful to the complex articulation of magic. Run, don’t walk, to get a hold of this transformative text.
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