Book cover for Blackbird Days by Manuele Fior

Blackbird Days

2018 Released
88 Pages
1-2 Hours
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Fantagraphics BooksISBN 9781683960836
Translated by Jamie Richards

In this collection, two giant robots battle it out in a European metropolis; an engineer is asked to inspect something unusual at a marble quarry; a recently relocated father loses his young son in Berlin's Tempelhof Park; the painter Arnold Böcklin takes a trip before he paints his famous masterpiece, The Island of Death; and, an immigrant grandmother tells the story of how she escaped war in Indochina. Blackbird Days is rounded out with an autobiographical snapshot of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, Fior's home.

Manuele Fior

Manuele Fior was born in Cesena (Italy) in 1975 and currently lives in Venice. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Le Monde, and La Republica.

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Jamie Richards

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Jamie Richards is a widely published translator of Italian literature and winner of the National Translation Award in Prose. She currently lives in her native Los Angeles.

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