Thaisa Frank

UN ENFOQUE ORIGINAL E INNOVADOR DE LA TAREA DE ESCRIBIR.Lasautoras nos invitan a encontrar una forma totalmente personal de expresión, a conectar con nuestra voz másíntima, con aquello que sólo nosotros podemos decir.Thaisa Frank y Dorothy Wall saben lo que implica buscar la propia voz literaria, ese tono que dota de magia a un texto y lo hace diferente de todos los demas. En este libro nos ayudan a descubrir nuestro estilo, a encontrar inspiracion en nuestro entorno, a distinguir lo autentico de lo artificial, a utilizar los recursos literarios que se adecuan a lo que deseamos comunicar... y proponen ejercicios originales para trabajar, trabajar y trabajar.Escribir es una tarea personal y altamente privada; la experiencia y el consejo de los demas pueden servir de guia, pero este libro es sobre todo un acicate, porque, como dicen las autoras:"Solo usted puede escribir sus relatos, y solo usted puede descubrir como hacerlo. Estamos aqui, esperando a leerlos".

An occult Nazi program is threatened by a philosophers letter to a friend in this stunning work, full of mystery and strange tenderness (Dan Chaon). In the waning days of World War II, Nazi Germany is coming apart at the seams. Yet the death machine continues to churn. The Third Reichs obsession with the astral plane has led to the formation of an underground compound of scribestranslators charged with answering letters addressed to concentration camp inmates who are most likely dead. Into this covert compound comes a letter written by eminent philosopher Martin Heidegger to his optometrist, a prisoner of Auschwitz. Goebbels himself has demanded a response. But the mere presence of Heideggers wordsone simple letter in a place filled with letterssparks a series of events that will ultimately threaten the safety of the entire compound. With this debut novel that is part thriller and part meditation on how the dead are rememberedand with threads of Heideggers philosophy woven throughoutThaisa Frank deftly reconstructs the landscape of Nazi Germany in a spellbinding, innovative, intellectually compelling tourdeforce (Michelle Huneven).

The short fiction of Thaisa Frank has captivated readers for two decades, and now many of those pieces are collected in one volume, along with several new stories. In the title story, a lonely mother and housewife orders an enchanted man from a website called The Wondrous Traveler, who arrives with instructions for use and a list of frequently asked questions about enchantment. In "Thread," two circus performers who pass through the eye of a needle become undone by a complicated love triangle. In "Henna," a young writing teacher must contend with an exotic student who will not write, her hands covered in dye and her fingers "sprouting innumerable gardens." And in "The Loneliness of the Midwestern Vampire," the undead descend upon the heartland of the country and become accustomed to its friendlier way of life, attending barn raisings and feasting on cattle in an attempt to normalize their darker passions.These are vibrant, compelling stories that examine the distance between imagination and reality, and how characters bridge that gap in their attempt to reach one another.