Tomás Downey

Diving Board (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Moses, Sarah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Opening Diving Board is like waking in a white room with no doors or windows. A question resonates as one reads these stories: How did Tomás Downey place me here so perfectly, and why is it that I don't want to leave?Agustina Bazterrica, author of Tender is the Flesh and The Unworthy

Tomás Downey writes from the edge of the abyss. A little girl disappears midair; a horse grows from a seed; a war widow receives a visit of condolence, over and over and over again. In The Astronaut a man has become weightless, bobbing around on the ceiling, nauseated every time he is brought down and tethered to the earth. But the question here is not how or why, it's what happens next? The astronaut wonders Will I burn like an asteroid or drown in the void of space? just as all of Downey's stories reside in that threatening, destabilizing moment when all connection is lost. The world is filled with an ever-thickening mist, an old love haunts the living, making fruit rot in the bowl, and resolution isn't offered or even soughtthe human condition is queasy, fretful, absurd. All we can hope for is the leap into the unknown.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Invisible Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781778430749
• Artikelnr.: 72584194

Autorenporträt

Tomás Downey is a translator, screenwriter, and the author of Acá el tiempo es otra cosa, El lugar donde mueren los pájaros, Flores que se abren de noche, and López López. His stories have been translated into Italian and English, and have appeared in magazines such as The Offing and The Common, and in the anthology Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories. He was born in 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lives.