Moscow as an Upturned UmbrellaMoscow as an Upturned Umbrella is a book about the thin threads that bind apparently random things together cracked mirrors, wooden lemmings, Portuguese tram routes, John Coltrane, Lilya Brik, Michel Foucault and a blind donkey in Bruges. Inspired by film makers like Tarkovsky, Kaurismki, Greenaway, Rybczyski and Svankmajer, Sen Senkov reveals the world to be even more strange, subversive and surreal than you imagined. Meanwhile God sits watching all

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"There is no word out of place

The front cover painting is by Moroccan painter and novelist Mahi Binebine

Ali Hussain al-Felkawi

swimmers and drowned sailors

things deteriorate rapidly

The wood outside their home hums with it

The damning evidence that he has sexually harassed his students is just the beginning as Dave finds himself sucked into a vortex of conspiracy

a distinguished environmental journalist

Mihai Ursachi

at the very first stirring

Nada Holland takes the reader beyond easy stoicism and into more puzzling terrain