Dark Paradise Middle East an erstwhile grocer’s assistant who

an erstwhile grocer’s assistant who has been transported against his will to the city of Bulnid on the planet Rathé—a kind of egalitarian paradise of which O’Kennedy wants no part

Conceived exactly nine months before the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World

This book addresses the meaningfulness of cultural traditions

and other never-before-published pieces—into a single volume

and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as disenfranchised as she

Dark Paradise Middle East an erstwhile grocer’s assistant whoby Rosa Liksom Translated by David McDuff Publication Date: 05 01 2007 ISBN: 9781564784377 A man murders a grocer over fifteen cents but in the sharp, icy prose and detached tone that defines this collection, his crime seems neither sensational nor entirely reprehensible. Rosa Liksom populates a world of snow covered landscapes, antiseptic apartments, fish factories, and lumber camps with the obsessive, the violent, and the unhinged. A woman refuses