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olos takes us inside the world of the child, back to when seeing meant seeing for the first time, the nameless, the unknown, the mysterious, a world without preconception, where things lurk in every shadow—explored in this stunning collection of sixteen stores—with dark, twisted irony and unexpected humor and kindness in odd places.

   Wolos invests himself in the assertion, made by Franz Kafka, that literary writing “should be an ice axe to break-up the frozen sea inside of us.”