The Fugue

Aras, Gint

ISBN 10: 1939987415 / ISBN 13: 9781939987419

Published by Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, Chicago, 2015

About this Item

There is some wear around the edges of the covers and the page; Paperback; Chicago Center for; 2015; First Edition; Sticker on the front stating that it is an autographed copy. Stated 1st printing and 1st edition. Signed and dated on the dedication page for December 2015 in Oak Park, IL. ; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 502 p.; Signed by Author Very Good edges, but apart from that the inside of the book is very clean, still tightly bound, and Literature and Photography.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fugue
• Publisher: Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, Chicago
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1939987415
• ISBN 13: 9781939987419
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good shape.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

After over a decade in prison, a young sculptor, Yuri Dilienko, returns to his old neighborhood in Cicero, Illinois. He finds the town stripped of so many places he used to know, while the town's familiar streets, bricks and steeples trigger memories of his traumatic youth. To convalesce, he sculpts from collected scrap metal, but his arrival in town soon rouses a young girl, Lita Avila, to curiosity. Could this reclusive and oddly quiet man, whose art is sensitive yet intense, truly be guilty of setting fire to his parents' bungalow and burning them alive? At once an homage to the urban grit of Nelson Algren and the family sagas of Leo Tolstoy, The Fugue is a true epic that spans three generations and over fifty years, a major new achievement in the history of Chicago literature. It considers the effects of war and the silent, haunting traumas inherited by children of displaced refugees. Gint Aras's lucid yet lyrical prose braids and weaves a tale where memory and imagination merge, time races and drags, and identity collapses and shifts without warning. 

About the Author

Gint Aras (Karolis Gintaras Žukauskas) lives in Oak Park, Illinois with his family. He's a community college instructor, photographer, and has worked as an editor, columnist, interpreter and translator. Learn more at gint-aras.com.