story: “The Grozny Tourist Bureau”
author: Anthony Marra
year: 2015
where: Casa, sonnolento
note: The opening image of the verdigris-encrusted statue rising from the debris reminds me of Shelley’s “Ozymandias.”
a line: “The minister set down his silverware and began sorting through the little trout bones on his plate, reconstructing the skeleton of the fish he had consumed.”
theme(s): Postwar, loss, disability, tourism industry
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