traveling peter
Under the Jaguar Sun by Calvino
And Peter's Pig taking a peek. No, my pig can't read.
Thanks to Gabi for recommending this author to me. This book contains the three short stories Under the Jaguar Sun, A King Listens, and The Name, the Nose. They all have in common that a particular sense plays a prominent role. Taste in the first one, hearing in the second, and smell in the third. And even when describing pure and beautiful things, the sinister is always lurking somewhere close. Under the Jaguar Sun is about a couple traveling in Mexico, exploring spicy food and its relation to their love life and, of course, cannibalism (no, I'm not kidding). A King Listens is mostly about the unpleasantries of being king. The Name, the nose tells three parallel stories of male narrators trying to find the lady of their dreams by her smell (each story set in a different time and situation, all more or less in the same locatin, I think).
Under the Jaguar Sun by Calvino
And Peter's Pig taking a peek. No, my pig can't read.
Thanks to Gabi for recommending this author to me. This book contains the three short stories Under the Jaguar Sun, A King Listens, and The Name, the Nose. They all have in common that a particular sense plays a prominent role. Taste in the first one, hearing in the second, and smell in the third. And even when describing pure and beautiful things, the sinister is always lurking somewhere close. Under the Jaguar Sun is about a couple traveling in Mexico, exploring spicy food and its relation to their love life and, of course, cannibalism (no, I'm not kidding). A King Listens is mostly about the unpleasantries of being king. The Name, the nose tells three parallel stories of male narrators trying to find the lady of their dreams by her smell (each story set in a different time and situation, all more or less in the same locatin, I think).