Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Autore di What We Fed to the Manticore
Opere di Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Let Your Body Meet the Ground 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Kolluri, Talia Lakshmi
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 81
- Popolarità
- #222,754
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 4
A few notes and passages from my favorites from the collection.
The Hunted, the Haunted, the Hungry, the Tame
A surrealistic story of a sled dog in the Arctic region whose visions of a whale swimming beneath him in the bedrock talking to and tempting him to break from the strict hierarchical chain of command seem to serve as a stand in for the subconscious - its intuitive powers and, destructively, its hidden longing for death.
A Level of Tolerance
A wolf mother is caught in a version of Groundhog Day that always begins with her waking up, rousing her pups, looking for her missing brother, and ends with being killed by a hunter. The motif seems to suggest the wiping out, and then the reintroduction, of wolves into ecosystems by humans.
Someone Must Watch Over the Dead
A vulture remembers the important role the ancestors played in cleansing the corpses of the human dead exposed in the round towers of India (the Zoroastrian dakhmas). One very old vulture, the Lonely One, is known to have visions of the life lived by the flesh she eats. On a plain a herd of antelope (saiga antelope, a critically endangered species, which locates this story in the Kazakhstan region) have all perished. As the vultures gather, their role in Zoroastrianism expanded to encompass a sort of duty of care over all dead things, our vulture narrator has his own vision.
The Dog Star Is the Brightest Star in the Sky
A polar bear, facing starvation, hunts a seal with an arctic fox as his companion.
The Open Ocean Is an Endless Desert
A young baleen whale tries to migrate to warmer waters without his mother’s guidance for the first time. He has found a mate, and they discuss the mythical story of a group of whales that left the sea, stood up on two legs, and now roam the land instead of the water. The noise of a ship engine will interfere with the guiding sounds he depends on.
… (altro)