Blood and Soap
By:Linh Dinh
Published on 2011-01-04 by Seven Stories Press
Blood and Soap is a breakthrough collection of modern-day fables from a wildly inventive American writer whose fiction has been called |terse and edgy| (Booklist) and |vividly imagined| (Kirkus Reviews). Dinh's gift is for constructing, in the manner of Italo Calvino, simple narratives that quickly frame larger questions; with a poet's timing, the author builds his stories to the one or few climactic sentences that brand them with unforgettable meaning. In one tale, a Vietnamese boy's self-guided, haphazard study of English gives way to a meditation on the universality of language: |Everything seems chaotic at first, but nothing is chaotic. One can read anything: ants crawling on the ground; pimples on a face; trees in a forest.| In another story, a man opens a newspaper and sees the photograph of a man he may have murdered, which he impulsively clips, only to feel that in doing so he unwittingly has sealed his crime: |As soon as I finished, I realized what I had done: by cutting my father's likeness out of the newspaper, I had removed him from the world.| The collection crescendoes in displays of raw creative power, as in |Eight Plots,| a rapid-fire of three- and four-sentence summaries, and the brilliant, impressionistic |!| Blood and Soap is an arresting collection from one of a small number of writers on the vanguard of American fiction.
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