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In Moving Parts a feckless comical narrator struggles against all odds totell a story for which he is responsible but which he neither controls norunderstands. His characters multiply repeat and go astray his employer ispaying no attention asleep in a drunken stupor. The increasingly desperatenarrator clambers over rooftops and through underground passages watchinghelplessly as his characters reappear in different times and settings and startrival stories against his will.This thoughtprovoking wryly humorous work from the acclaimed author ofDreams and Stones tells of the sadness of the world and of the inadequatemeans that language and storytelling offer us for describing and understandingit. Yet it does so in Tullis characteristically clear concrete gorgeousprose and as with Dreams and Stones the book is a delight to read. Thisextraordinary work utterly unique both in its form and its message shows aEuropean master at the height of her powers and constitutes a majorcontribution to a new century of European literature. Moving Parts wasshortlisted for the 2004 Nike Prize Polands most prestigious literary award.W.S. Merwin claims The originality of Tullis writing is not lessened byrepresenting a family tree that includes Michaud Kafka Calvino andSaramago. «
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