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By Karl Luntta

ISBN-10: 143845872X

ISBN-13: 9781438458724

Compelling tales of intercultural touch and emotional survival in a fancy world.

A swimming pool within the Kalahari wasteland, the ice skates of a boy in a wheelchair, and a hour of darkness educate experience within the cool African evening shape the backdrop of the 8 assorted tales in Swimming. the various tales ensue in Africa, others within the usa, yet in them all, the characters confront cultural and racial changes, either traditionally and within the current. In “A Virgin Twice,” an American educating in Botswana struggles to appreciate a village’s reaction to a violent attack. In “Jeff name Beth,” a white American father makes an attempt to connect to the daughter he left in the back of in Africa. And within the identify tale, “Swimming,” a Danish expatriate loss of life of melanoma comes to a decision to construct an Olympic-sized swimming pool within the Kalahari barren region. All of those characters are clinging to emotional survival in a posh global, faced through a second or component of their lives that's puzzling, might be devastating, yet which they should resolve.

“Karl Luntta’s Swimming takes us from Botswana to the US and again to Africa, briefly tales that catch humanity from early life to outdated age. Luntta’s nice power: crystallizing the moments while lives are replaced and the long run (as good as one’s stories of the previous) is altered.” — John Coyne

Karl Luntta is the writer of the radical Know It by means of Heart in addition to various go back and forth books. His tales have seemed in International Quarterly, Talking River, and Baltimore Review. He lives outdoor Albany, New York.

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