Batlava Lake - Adam Mars-Jones performance from the hit @tinyhouse Instagram

from the hit @tinyhouse Instagram account

The short story collection that launched Tabucchi to fame

moreThey often hint at broader narratives and histories—seemingly reconnecting with artistic traditions of realism—but they remain dreamlike and impossible to reduce to a single story

drawings made of ripped paper

moving pictures and stereo recordings as the ideal form of scientific evidence

Batlava Lake - Adam Mars-Jones performance from the hit @tinyhouse InstagramPristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant story