Twelve Collections

<p>What lies behind the human urge to collect things? What is the true psychology of the kleptomaniac? These questions bear on all of us; within every person there lurks a fanatical philatelist or a monomaniacal lepidopterist just waiting to burst forth. In his new story cycle <em>Twelve Collections</em> Zoran Zivkovic the master of mind-bending surreal fantasy applies his fertile mind to this problem. Some of Zivkovic’s characters are lonely eccentrics driven to gather unusual objects by quirks of temperament or fate; others are the victims of metaphysical collectors from Beyond entities eager to snap up memories emotions and other loose fragments of the soul.</p><p>In these pages are explained the profound karmic consequences of photographic narcissism insane record-keeping the archiving of one’s nail clippings and the infinite savouring of words; here also are exemplary warnings against surrendering hope living without creativity accepting too blithe a Heaven and answering the phone in the middle of a dream-haunted night. Of course even with such sage counsel life remains uncertain and perilous; but even if ultimate answers can never be found a Zivkovic collection is always eminently collectable…</p>