Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Purity's stories
take the reader through cities and suburbs,
apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in
modern society: a man has a breakdown on a bus; a fugitive gains insight from a
color wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief proclaims
his innocence. And cleaners reluctantly clean up.
With weight as well as humor, people are depicted as
fallen, in the process of falling or waiting to fall, against the backdrop of a
violent civilization, rendered by Tich with the fury of Thomas Bernhard.
Synopsis
Purity's stories take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has a breakdown on a bus; a fugitive gains insight from a color wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief proclaims his innocence. And cleaners reluctantly clean up.
With weight as well as humor, people are depicted as fallen, in the process of falling or waiting to fall, against the backdrop of a violent civilization, rendered by Tich with the fury of Thomas Bernhard.
Synopsis
2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize Finalist
The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds insight in a color wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief finds himself in books. And cleaners reluctantly go on cleaning.
With gravity and humor, against the backdrop of a violent civilization, people are depicted as fallen, or waiting to fall, rendered by Tich with the fury, compassion and emotional complexity of Kendrick Lamar.