The Fata Morgana Books - Softcover

"Four nightmarish novellas . . . The writing is sinuous and propulsive; disturbing images are rendered with icy, swift precision." -- The New Yorker

"These stories lead the reader on a race through the abyss . . ." -- Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes

"Here genitalia prove as amorphous as the desires they incite, and slaughter leaves only casual impressions upon its casualties. . . . As much as we loathe these atrocity exhibits, we turn every knob. Littell has organized the mechanisms, but our desire is what fuels the machine." -- BOMB

"The stories evoke the fin-de-siècle sensibility of Baudelaire or Schnitzler."
-- Publishers Weekly

"A living, breathing, sublime collection of novellas that ignite the reader's imagination and entices their most base of desires to grab control." -- Typographical Era

"The four novellas that comprise this collection deal with a wealth of themes, but the ultimate one is of unachieved desire and the isolating mania it spawns. . . . 'Surrealistic' doesn't fully capture the formal breed of this collection." -- HTMLGIANT

"Littell's stories are structurally elegant . . . The Fata Morgana Books is a frequently thought-provoking [read]." -- Foreword Reviews

"A gorgeous tour through a world of human excess and futility . . . exhilarating." -- Numéro Cinq

An English-language compilation of novellas by the award-winning author of The Kindly Ones features fresh, sensuous depictions of classic obsessions with sex, love and memory and includes the tales, "In Quarters" and "Story About Nothing." Original.