حفلة سكاكين في فندق أوروبا

Shortlisted for the Alistair Macleod Short Story Prize, the New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and the Thomas Radall Prize for Atlantic Fiction Mark Anthony Jarman, one of the treasures of Canadian literature, returns with a book of poignant, often humorous, stories about one man's soul-searching journey. A.S. Bayat says his writing is “exceptional, his stories captivating,” and in this wonderful new collection, Jarman offers something new once again. In A Party of Knives at the Europa Hotel, Jarman writes about losing and finding love, marriage and depression, turmoil and the redemptive power of travel in a sensual Italian summer. A man travels to Italy to escape memories of a lost love and an ended marriage. It passes through a sunny landscape of picturesque coastal cliffs and islands, while the waves wash up the bodies of refugees on the shore; He celebrates with beautiful young Italian women he meets on the train while a man bleeds to death in the hallway. A teenage thief roams the roof of a tourist hotel at night; An embassy is bombed; The sacred statues come back to life and roam the place as part of a gang stealing used restaurant oils.