When reality convulses before our eyes, Ethel Krauze clings to the creative act. The result of this exercise of imagination and intelligence are the twenty stories that comprise The Impertinent Shard, disturbing fictions charged with eroticism and lucidity.
"Repairing the original fracture had been her life's work. She knew well how to survive with the broken pieces, separating them into compartments so that they wouldn't know each other, so that they wouldn't miss each other, so that each would sprout new branches that gave rise to different, distant, parallel, simultaneous flowers.
She knew how to clean the blood so that no trace of the crime remained; she could leave the crime scene spotless, as if it had never taken place. She was an expert at erasing the memory of the glass fragments, except for one. There was one stubborn one, there was always one left over, repell...read more
