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Torpor, new edition

By Chris Kraus, Fanny Howe (Introduction)
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$16.95
By Chris Kraus, Fanny Howe (Introduction)
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In 1991, unhappily married Sylvie and her husband set off on a journey across Eastern Europe in search of a Romanian orphan to adopt.

Sylvie wanted to believe that misery could simply be replaced with happiness. Time was a straight line, stretching out before you. If you could create a golden kind of time and lay it right beside the other time, the time of horror, Bad History could just recede into the distance without ever having to be resolved.
—from Torpor

Set at the dawn of the New World O...

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