Event Factory

ISBN: 0984469303

Author: Gladman, Renee

Condition: New

More Kafka than Kafka, Renee Gladmans achievement ranks alongside many of Borges in its creation of a fantastical landscape with deep psychological impact. -Jeff VanderMeerA linguist-traveler arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee. Although fluent in the native language, she quickly finds herself on the outside of every experience. Things happen to her, events transpire, but it is as if the city itself, the performance of life there, eludes her. Setting out to uncover the source of the citys erosion, she is beset by this other crisis-an ontological crisis-as she struggles to retain a sense of what is happening.Event Factory is the first in a series of novels (also available are the second, The Ravickians; the third, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge; and the fourth, Houses of Ravicka) that Renee Gladman is writing about the invented city-state of Ravicka, a foreign other place fraught with the crises of American urban experience, not least the fundamental problem of how to move through the world at all.