false 3828905 2 What links a café in Antarctica, a factory for producing electronic tracking tags and a casino where gamblers can wager their shoes? They’re among the multiple venues where award-winning writer Tania Hershman sets her unique tales in this spellbinding debut collection. Fleeing from tragedy, a bereaved mother opens a cafe on the road to the South Pole. A town which has always suffered extreme cold enjoys sudden warmth. A stranger starts plaiting a young woman’s hair. A rabbi comes face to face with an angel in a car park. An elderly woman explains to her young carer what pregnancy used to mean before science took over. A middle-aged housewife overcomes a fear of technology to save her best friend. A desperate childless woman resorts to extreme measures to adopt. A young man’s potential is instantly snuffed out by Nature’s whims. A lonely widow bakes cakes in the shape of test tubes and DNA. A number of these stories are inspired by articles from science magazines, taking fact as their starting points and wondering what might happen if…? In these surreal, lyrical stories, many of which are only a few pages long, Tania Hershman allows her imagination free reign, as her characters navigate through love, death, friendship, spirituality, mental illness and the havoc wreaked by the weather. 3873541 1 9 2008 The White Road and other Stories (Salt Modern Fiction) total:21|5:13|4:6|3:2|2:0|1:0| 21 95 41 9 3828905 1844714756 9781844714759 19 9 4.52 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828905.The_White_Road_and_other_Stories 5 2 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 12:45:54 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 12:52:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3828905 1844714756 9781844714759 19 9 4.52 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828905.The_White_Road_and_other_Stories 5 1 false Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 23 11:31:18 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 06 06:09:07 -0800 2009 http://nikperring.blogspot.com/2009/01/w...) - January 2009:

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