Falsipedies and Fibsiennes

Ranging from the Persian Gulf to the American South, from ancient Greece to pre-Islamic Arabia, Ali Eteraz's stories observe an eccentric cast of characters longing for freedom. Illicit lovers playing with Koranic numerology; an enslaved man turned into a beast; a young woman rejecting her father’s faith; theologically inclined brothers caught in a dragnet; a resentful poet's cynical humanitarianism. Sensual and surrealist, the stories in Falsipedies and Fibsiennes unsettle and surprise, but with tenderness.

Barry Hannah said that great fiction ‘Takes Us There.’ When you read Ali Eteraz’s brave, wonderful stories, you are transported by strength of detail, diction and image to a landscape that is at once both strange and familiar, fabulist and realist. The effect is that of being simultaneously on an island, in a desert, in gridlock traffic on a sandstorm-battered highway. You want to see how Eteraz imagines and re-imagines the worlds we live in now, and the worlds we’ve experienced in our dreams, in our pasts. If you like stories that challenge and delight, this is your book.

– Elizabeth Kadetsky, author of The Poison That Purifies You.

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