Tania Hershman was born in London in 1970 and in 1994 moved to Jerusalem. After 15 years in Israel, in August 2009 she and her partner, and their two cats, moved to Bristol. A former science journalist, her award-winning short stories combine her two loves: fiction and science. Many of Tania’s stories, which have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in print and online, are inspired by articles from popular science magazines. In November 2007, she founded The Short Review, a unique website dedicated to reviewing short story collections. For more on Tania's current projects, visit TaniaHershman.com and her blog, TaniaWrites. |
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What links a café in
Antarctica, a factory for producing electronic
tracking tags and a casino where gamblers can wager their shoes?
They're among the multiple venues where Tania
Hershman sets her unique tales in this spellbinding debut collection. |
Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Salt Publishing (8 Sep 2008) Language English ISBN-10: 1844714756 ISBN-13: 978-1844714759 Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.2 cm |
Fleeing from tragedy, a bereaved mother opens a cafe on the road to the South Pole. A town which has always suffered extreme cold enjoys sudden warmth. A stranger starts plaiting a young woman's hair. A rabbi comes face to face with an angel in a car park. A young man's potential is instantly snuffed out by Nature's whims. A lonely widow bakes cakes in the shape of test tubes and DNA.
A
number of these stories are inspired
by articles from science
magazines,
taking fact as their starting points and wondering
what
might happen if . . .? In these surreal, lyrical stories, many of which
are only
a few pages long,
Tania Hershman allows her imagination free
rein, as her characters navigate through love, death, friendship,
spirituality, mental illness and the havoc wreaked by the weather.
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Tania is partnering with Eco-Libris to balance out her book by planting a tree for every copy. Click on the image to find out more! |