Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I'm a Monster
by Damian Tarnopolsky
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Pub Date 3 Sep 2024 | Archive Date 30 Sep 2024
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Description
A risk-taking, labyrinthine, and absolutely original collection of short stories.
Every Night I Dream I’m a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster offers an unfolding puzzle of the human psyche that is at once explosive, funny, dark, sweet, pained, and utterly strange. From the tangled threads of a messed-up family to the timeless themes of consciousness, love, art, and death, Damian Tarnopolsky’s narrative journey takes readers through past, present, and future, with stories spanning from 1980s England to Renaissance France to present-day Canada to a world yet to come.
Each tale stands alone in its stylistic direction, only to connect and reflect back on each other in unexpected, touching, and sometimes jarring ways. As characters from different times and places converge, the result is a mosaic of emotions and insights that mirror the complexities of a self in time.
With echoes of Chekhov, Olga Tokarczuk, and Jennifer Egan, this is a collection that transcends the boundaries of traditional storytelling, offering a glimpse into the workings of human relationships, inheritance, and experience.
A Note From the Publisher
Absolutely original: these stories are wonderfully, darkly, bizarrely weird and there is nothing else like this book out there!
Advance Praise
Praise for Damian Tarnopolsky
“Damian Tarnopolsky’s style is essentially witty: it combines observation and action in a way that is so elegant, so articulate and yet light of touch that one is hardly aware of its complexity.” – Russell Smith
“Damian Tarnopolsky often writes like a dazzling fallen angel. . . . I listened to Tarnopolsky plucking at my shopworn critical synapses, and asked why he made them sing in a way several prize contenders haven’t. The answer is that he’s a truly new voice, delivered with a rare panache.” – Globe and Mail
“At turns surreal, serio-comic, whimsical and erotic, Tarnopolsky’s stories hurtle headlong into the heart of our myths . . . and reveal that the truth waiting for us is not what we’d expect.” – Toronto Star
Marketing Plan
- Author appearances: Toronto, GTA
- National advertising
- National targeted review mailing
- Pitches to literary festivals
For more information contact
colby@freehand-books.com
- Author appearances: Toronto, GTA
- National advertising
- National targeted review mailing
- Pitches to literary festivals
For more information contact
colby@freehand-books.com
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781990601804 |
| PRICE | US$22.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 304 |
Links
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Faezah M, Reviewer
experimental and surreal novel that explores the intersections of identity, self-perception, and the subconscious mind. The title itself sets the tone for a story that balances between the sacred and the monstrous, offering a metaphorical journey through the protagonist’s inner struggles.
The novel delves into themes of duality and transformation, as the protagonist wrestles with their own evolving identity and the tension between opposing forces within themselves. The monk and the monster represent two sides of the same coin—spirituality and darkness, peace and chaos—making the novel a complex reflection on the human experience and the constant battle between these contrasting aspects of self.
Tarnopolsky’s narrative is likely to appeal to readers who enjoy introspective, thought-provoking literature with elements of the fantastical, exploring deep existential themes in a poetic and fragmented style.
