Octavo. 5.25 x 8.5 in. 139 pp. Near fine in pictorial wrappers with faint toning to spine and edges around spine. Tree of Codes is an adaptation of erasure, so to speak, of Bruno Schulz' The Street of Crocodiles. Foer has used it as a starting point, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story about the last day of man's life.

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Title

Tree of Codes

Publisher

Visual Editions, London

Publication Date

2010

Language

English

ISBN 10

0956569218

ISBN 13

9780956569219

Binding

Paperback

Edition

First Edition, First Printing.

Condition

Near fine

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Tree of Codes is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first ? as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. Tree of Codes is the story of an enormous last day of life ? as one character's life is chased to extinction, Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person�s last day everyone�s story. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his "favorite" book, The Street of Crocodiles by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, and used it as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in Jonathan Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice.

About the Author

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into 36 languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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