Atavisms American Literature Series and seems innocent as to

and seems innocent as to the perverse nature of his taboo attachments

in its author’s words

catching the reader unawares

“Michal Ajvaz is a literary magician creating worlds of worlds

Atavisms American Literature Series and seems innocent as toan original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the hinterland to the metropolis, from colonial times to the present and beyond. Here is a group portrait of the individual lives that together shape a collective history. Atavisms is an original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the hinterland to the metropolis, from colonial times to the present and beyond. These thirteen stories, though not linked in the traditional sense, abound in common