Lanzmann

Ranging widely in subject matter – from a musicians destructive narcissism to the strange effects a persistent Norwegian has on a bachelors love life – the stories in this collection also vary in style, from the elegant and insightful to the highly adventurous. Inventive, deeply comic, and sometimes very unsettling, this is an assured and significant debut.

Lanzmann and Other Stories marks the first appearance of a startlingly gifted writer.

Damian Tarnopolsky studied literature at Oxford University, and writing with Mavis Gallant at the Humber School for Writers. His work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Toro, and elsewhere. This is his first book.