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    Kingdom of the Young: Stories

    By Edie Meidav

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    “A series of dreamy, complex, poignant stories with language that is by turns gauzy-poetic and pinpoint-precise but unfailingly inventive.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
     
    The dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure, work, love, absolution, better chances elsewhere. A fanatical child army loses faith in its commander as he ages unforgivably into his thirties. A woman possessed with wanderlust and a small inheritance seeks love among the cave-dwelling Roma in Granada. Traumatized war veterans run local rackets; smarmy bureaucrats rise through the ranks of repressive regimes; civilians attempt to escape the stranglehold of life under dictatorships.
     
    From the honeycombed caves outside the Alhambra to the streets of Havana, from hospital wards to quinceañera parties, these stories—along with the collection’s illuminating nonfiction coda—testify to the vast imaginative range of an author who has won a Kafka and a Whiting Award among other literary prizes.
     
    “Ambitious, original, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the crônicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino.” —Carolyn Cooke, author of Daughters of the Revolution
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 11, 2017
    ISBN9781941411421
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    Kingdom of the Young: Stories
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    Edie Meidav

    Edie Meidav is the author of The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon and Crawl Space (FSG, 2005). Winner of a Lannan Fellowship, a Howard Fellowship, the Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman, and the Bard Fiction Prize, she teaches at Bard College.

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    • 5/5
      Highly recommendable. Inspiring, even. I'd never heard of Ms. Meidav before picking this one up for three bucks or so on Kindle, but she's got what all good writers work their entire working lives to get: her own voice. Her sentences are long and fluid and, at the same time, full of odd little tics: anachronisms, an almost European formality, odd words you might get your mind stuck on in the most pleasant way imaginable. These stories, even the short ones, beg for immediate rereading. Her range of subjects and settings is prodigious (Cuba to pre-war Eastern Europe to California and back), but elaborated with an attention to detail that makes you think that a serious amount of research or personal experience went into them. The two essays -- in which the author discusses her father's long, weird journey of a life and her own vagabonding around Europe, more or less seems to confirm this. It seems that anybody with an MFA can put out a book of short stories on this or that small press these days, but "Kingdom of the Young" really is much better than the average.