The Museum of Useless Efforts BISAC-REL082000 or when compelled to it

or when compelled to it by outside attack

ISBN10: 1258449900

Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan

That's okay

ISBN10: 1625012276

The Museum of Useless Efforts BISAC-REL082000 or when compelled to itIn The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite ordinary. Crafting peculiar and sometimes claustrophobically small worlds, Peri Rossi explores the universal themes of desire, violence, and truth and the simultaneous and contradictory human capacities to repress and resist, speak and silence, desire and