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  • MediaDB / «St. Lucia's Orphanage for Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell: download fb2, read online

    About the book: year / Ten amazing stories, amazingly balancing on the line between reality and bizarre phantasmagoria. The nuns from the orphanage are trying to “humanize” the girls , raised by wolves, but not all can be re-educated. And those who succumb acquire human vices... The ice palace is the only entertainment for the residents of a provincial town. There is an evening show for adults called "Blizzard", during which people indulge in a variety of games, including very dangerous ones... An entire family makes a living by fighting alligators in a theme park... An elderly disabled man falls in love with a volunteer... A girl on an excursion gets stuck in a giant prehistoric shell as the tide comes in...Brothers search for the ghost of their sister who drowned in the ocean because of them...Ten dark fairy tales for adults. Ten stories about loneliness and loss, about the thirst for understanding and the search for freedom. Stories shimmering with all shades of magical realism.