Slow Elephants of Milan

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

“Revelatory and seductive.”— Publishers Weekly , starred review Enigmatic fictions from a lost master of Argentine literature. A man and woman on a road trip make an unplanned detour to Laar, an empty city of palaces and canals that may be no city at all. Two gaucho rebels are captured during war—one finds freedom in writing stories while the other is driven mad with envy. And a traveler in postwar Italy is inspired, almost against his will, to record the mysterious progress of two elephants thr