Literary Fiction
A collection of short stories exploring perverse, cynical, and often disturbing romantic encounters across exotic settings.
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A collection of short stories exploring perverse, cynical, and often disturbing romantic encounters across exotic settings.
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In these hilarious stories of perverse meetings, casual dates and romantic encounters, we are enthralled, saddened, inspired and surprised by the encounters we witness. McCall Smith, a master of the unexpected and a seamless storyteller, revels in offering us the quirky complications inherent in entanglements which human beings engineer for themselves - entanglements that can be shocking, edifying, compulsive, complicated and sometimes, completely disastrous. This is an exceptional collection of...
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Sexual content
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Central focus on perverse couplings, casual dates, and sexual encounters including prostitution.
Violence & gore
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Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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One story references immaculate conception and modern religious themes.
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Cynical and disturbing depictions of encounters involving suffering and coercion.
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