The Midwife of Torment (Essential Prose) by paulo da costa

By paulo da costa

The Midwife of Torment & different tales is a set of unexpected fiction that compresses its narrative to convey various tales that exchange the flavor of a philosophical mirrored image with the whimsical attraction of a myth with a twist. those tales additionally usually reside at the strange--and the horror--found in our mundane lives. tales that, every so often, additionally bounce so far as speculative fiction or swirl in a lyrical exploration of prose narratives. Divided into six sections, Midwife explores human and non-human voices via narrative weighing at below a thousand phrases, and the overwhelming majority weighing at lower than . incorporated are a sequence of black and white lithograph-like unique drawings commissioned in particular for this manuscript from the Portuguese visible artist, João Ventura.

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