Overview

Taken from his highly successful collection, these two stories take unconventional positions towards short story archetypes. The Tourist Butcher is an unflinching tale about a serial killer who prepares his victims for a culinary dish, while Memories in Aluminium Foil follows the nightmares and existential crisis of a psychology student who receives a slice of human brain in aluminium foil as a gift from his biologist roommate. In the original Dutch collection, Ouariachi stated that his goal was to ‘bring the short story back to the campfire’, allowing his stories to hold up a mirror to the reader, rather than telling them what to achieve. These two stories, appearing in English for the first time, demonstrate his success: he has created a pair of dark, horrifying underworlds for the reader’s mind to get lost in, whilst maintaining a language that is light and graceful.

Full Product Details

9781911343301

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Jamal Ouariachi has written four novels and a collection of short stories. Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature and BNG Bank Literature Prize for his fourth novel A Hunger (2015), which has been translated into many languages. His next novels, a diptych, are forthcoming in 2020. According to Ouariachi, he grew up in an ‘extremely everyday, typically Dutch multicultural family’ and attended the Barlaeus Gymnasium until he was ‘kicked out’. He studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam and worked as a therapist until the 2011, when he decided to dedicate himself full time to writing.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available