![]() ![]() It’s as though the story was told by a member of another species, amazed by even the most mundane things. The piece of straw is an old woman known as Dona Quixote, and so odd yet acute are Krohn’s descriptions of the city and its denizens that a reader is at first not quite certain whether the story is set on Earth or indeed if the narrator (or Dona Quixote) is human. It had a pair of binoculars at its neck and it stopped by the railing and began to look out at the sea.” ![]() It was as long and thin as a piece of straw, and it moved so lightly that it seemed to slip along above the dust of the road. “I was sitting on the pedestal of a statue when something passed me by. Here is the narrator’s first meeting with the eponymous protagonist: The “unusual city,” never named, is recognizable as modern Helsinki but a Helsinki at once as commonplace and marvelous as Gabriel García-Marquez’s Macondo. Portrait (Tales of the Citizens of an Unusual City).” The book consists of a series of chapters, most only a page or two in length, which can also be read as individual stories - a technique similar to that of Lydia Davis and a hallmark of nearly all of Krohn’s fiction here. ![]() The volume opens with “Dona Quixote and Other Citizens. ![]()
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