Bøker av Eli Horowitz

Set in a post-war fantasy world under the Empire's never-ending expansion, "The Final Days of Kobold Kody's Frontier Exposition and Tonic Show" tells the story of the final days of a traveling circus. Following a bloody vision by Andra, the show's Fortuneteller, and culminating with a showdown with Pol, the Empire's most powerful magician and poet, it is up to Andra alone to thwart the bloody prophecy and save her fellow performers, a quirky cast of outsiders and misfits, from a terrible fate.

"The Pickle Index is full of life and everything else-it's rowdy and sweaty and heartbreaking, and by heartbreaking I mean funny, and by funny I mean laugh-until-you're-exhausted-and-leaking-and-hungry." -Miranda JulyZloty Kornblatt is the hapless ringmaster of an even more hapless circus troupe. But one fateful night, Zloty makes a mistake: he accidentally makes his audience laugh. Here on the outskirts of Burford-where both the cuisine and the economy, such as they are, are highly dependent on pickled vegetables-laughter is a rare occasion. It draws the immediate attention of the local bureaucracy, and by morning Zloty has been branded an instigator, conspirator, and fomentor sentenced to death or worse.His only hope lies with his dysfunctional troupe-a morose contortionist, a strongman who'd rather be miming, a lion tamer paired with an elderly dog-a ragged band of misfits and failures who must somehow spring Zloty from his cell at the top of the Confinement Needle. Their arcane skills become strangely useful, and unlikely success follows unlikely success. Until, suddenly, the successes end-leaving only Flora Bialy, Zloty's understudy and our shy narrator, to save the day.Punctuated with evocative woodcuts by Ian Huebert, Eli Horowitz's The Pickle Index is a fast-moving fable, full of deadpan humor and absurd twists-and an innovative, exhilarating storytelling experience.

A generation of children are born without speech, without comprehension, without language entirely. Parents, doctors, opportunist inventors, cult leaders, and vigilantes, recall what they have endured and what they have inflicted on others.