Dark Paradise

by Rosa Liksom, David McDuff (Translator)

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 apartment as his life moves on around him. A woman kills her new husband over his neediness and inability to leave their bed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564784377
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	05/28/2007
Series:	Finnish Literature Series
Edition description:	Translatio
Pages:	117
Sales rank:	621,798
Product dimensions:	6.49(w) x 8.02(h) x 0.39(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rosa Liksom was born in Lapland in 1958. She is the author of six books, script writer, performance artist and painter. Her paintings have been exhibited in New York, Moscow and Reykjavik. She lives in Helsinki where she works as a bartender. Her short fictions have been translated into the major European languages - this is their first appearance in English.

Editorial Reviews

Liksom gains interest and subtlety with every succeeding page' -Booktrust

Dalkey Archive Press

From the Publisher

Though much of Liksom's work is unsavoury, her prose is tersely lyrical, often caustically funny, and her message poignant.

European

Reading this collection by post-feminist, post-modernist, post-punk Rosa Liksom is like being spat at: unpleasant, but shockingly memorable. . . . Short, sharp shocks for modern life.

Insight Books

Ever felt like sticking a knife in somebody? Rosa Liksom does it all the time. OK, only in prose, but tearless prose.

Guardian

As a short story writer Rosa Liksom is one of the most promising for many years in Finnish literature.

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