Head Full of Joy

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. This collection of sixteen stories takes us on an eccentric tour of contemporary existence. A lonely man rants about everything under the sun, including the sun itself. A vampire recounts the history and travails of the Balkans' bloodsucking community. A grief-stricken widower leads his son on a frantic search through the night. A husband and his pregnant wife argue, in Raymond Carver-like fashion, over whether Carver's stories will have a negative influence on the baby. In prose rich with Nabokovian detail and barroom humor, Spahic paints a portrait of a world so strange, it could only exist in the twenty-first century.

Author: Ognjen Spahic
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 12/14/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781628972733
ISBN10: 1628972734
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Dystopian
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)