Photocopies: Encounters (Vintage International) - Softcover

The Booker Prize-winning author of G. unveils a collection of twenty-nine stories featuring such characters as a gossipy schoolgirl on a Dublin bus and a thirteen-year-old Muslim refugee adrift in India. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

nts a collection of moments, each supremely vivid, that together make up a frieze of human history at the end of the millennium as well as a subtle and affecting self-portrait of their author. Using careful, intensely visual prose snapping frozen vignettes of life, these twenty-nine "photocopies" teach us about lying and self-invention, dignity and tenderness, charity and courage. Overflowing with the sights, sounds, and smells of life, Photocopies is a masterpiece from one of the most important chroniclers of our time.