Slow Elephants of Milan

Enigmatic fictions from a lost master of Argentine literature. A thick fog rolls into Milan as a man watches in astonishment while a procession of elephants crosses the street. A couple wandering through a forest is pointed toward a mysterious city from which they may never return. Two prisoners share a cell in the aftermath of a battle-one finds freedom in writing stories while the other is driven mad with envy. The Slow Elephants of Milan expands Ángel Bonomini's exploration of the interstitial realms between dream and reality. Originally published in 1978, these surreal and enigmatic fictions are among Bonomini's finest and most autobiographical, threaded together by an insatiable curiosity about time, memory, art, and the divine. With delicate precision, The Slow Elephants of Milan deconstructs the scaffolding of our perceptions to reveal what lies beneath: a metaphysical mirror-world that shimmers with haunting familiarity.