The paper menagerie and other stories
Title:
The paper menagerie and other stories
Short stories. Selections
Bookmaking habits of select species.
Personal Author:
Publication Date as Range:
2016
ISBN:
9781481424363
Uniform Title:
Short stories. Selections
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
ix, 450 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
The bookmaking habits of select species -- State change -- The perfect match -- Good hunting -- The literomancer -- Simulacrum -- The paper menagerie -- An advanced readers picture book of comparative -- Cognition -- The waves -- Mono no aware -- All the flavors -- A brief history of the trans-pacific tunnel -- The litigation master and the monkey king -- The man who ended history: a documentary.
Abstract:
"In "Simulacrum", the daughter of the revered inventor of augmented reality is irrevocably divided from her father by the technology that is meant to help her be closer to him. In the title story, "The Paper Menagerie", a child loses touch with magical paper menagerie built for him by his mother, a mail-order bride in suburban Connecticut, but then discovers as an adult that love knows no bounds. A young man struggling to preserve his culture in the face of utter annihilation finds peace in the transcendence of fleeting memory in "Mono no aware". As a couple explores one of the hidden atrocities of the Second World War, they try to speak for those who no longer can in "The Man Who Ended History". And in "An Advanced Reader's Picture Book of comparative Cognition", a mother and father who are separated by vast distances must invoke for their children a thousand ways love may take form."
Reading Level:
950 L Lexile
Genre:
Added Author:
Lexile Measure:
950 L
