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Archive for May 6, 2010

LOVE AND OBSTACLES by Aleksandar Hemon

“It was a perfect African night, straight out of Conrad:” That’s not even the complete first line from the very first story in the collection LOVE AND OBSTACLES, but it was right here that author Aleksandar Hemon grabbed my attention with his direction to memories of THE HEART OF DARKNESS–Conrad’s gaze into the hellish consequences of colonialism.

May 6, 2010  Tags: Short Stories  Posted in: Short Stories, World Literature  No Comments

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