That tiny life
Canada (romans), Auteurs canadiens (romans), Nouvelles
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
In settings that range from the old American West to pre-revolutionary France, from a present-day dig site in the high tablelands of South America to deep space, this is a wide-ranging and utterly original collection of short fiction and a… novella that examines the idea of progress - humanity’s never-ending cycle of creation and destruction. In the award-winning story, “Valley Floor,” a surgeon performs an amputation in the open desert in the American West. In “Da Capo al Fine,” set in eighteenth-century France, the creator of the fortepiano designs another, more brutal instrument. And in the title story, the reader gets a glimpse into a future in which human resource extraction goes far beyond Earth. An amazing interplay of minute detail against the backdrop of huge themes, such as human expression and impact, our need for connection, the innate violence in nature, and the god-complex present in all acts of human creation. 2018. Uniform title: Short stories.