Dark Paradise

by Rosa Liksom

Book Overview

A man murders a grocer over fifteen cents--but in the sharp, icy prose and detached tone that defines this collection, his crime seems neither sensational nor entirely reprehensible. Rosa Liksom populates a world of snow-covered landscapes, antiseptic apartments, fish factories, and lumber camps with the obsessive, the violent, and the unhinged. A woman refuses to leave prison until she has served her entire sentence. A man obsessively cleans his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564784371
• ISBN13: 9781564784377
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher