![]() Yet for Diski devotees existing and new, the far-ranging work the author has left behind here is something to savor. Readers just discovering Diski ( In Gratitude, 2016, etc.), who died from cancer in 2016, through the dozen stories in this collection may perceive this acutely-the searing sense of finding her funny, flinty voice just as it has disappeared. ![]() ![]() Among the ideas percolating in this quirky, disquieting fairy tale is the way a sense of loss can attend the moment of being found. It is only after one soldier and then another turn up to pierce and fragment the innocent solitude of her existence-bringing food, a mirror, and a calendar, to satisfy their own pleasure-that she comes to perceive time and disappointment, to see herself as they do and consequently to disappear. The princess in this insightful, imaginative, and wryly clever collection’s title story, “The Vanishing Princess or The Origin of Cubism,” may or may not be imprisoned in the circular tower room in which she lives in solitude, spending her time (of which she has no sense) placidly reading books on her bed, generally unaware of and remarkably incurious about the world outside, which she can glimpse from her small window. release, glimmers like found treasure-or a mirage. ![]() This short story collection from a beloved British author, published in the U.K. ![]()
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