Physical Description:xvii, 677 pages ; 24 cm print
Publisher:New York, New York : Viking, [2014]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Escape -- Listening to the shells -- The leader -- The treasure of Jovo Cirtovich -- The Madonna's forehead -- Cat goddess -- The trench ghost -- The faithful wife -- Doroteja -- The judge's promise -- June eighteenth -- The cemetery of the world -- Two kings in Ziñogava -- The white-armed lady -- Where your treasure is -- The memory stone -- The narrow passage -- The queen's grave -- Star of Norway -- The forgetful ghost -- The ghost of Rainy Mountain -- The camera ghost -- The cherry tree ghost -- Paper ghosts -- Widow's weeds -- The banquet of death -- The grave-house -- Defiance -- Too late -- When we were seventeen -- The answer -- Goodbye.
Summary, etc.:
"A collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic.... All these eerie tales, however far-flung their settings, all focus on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death."--