Imaginary Summer Reads
The Believer has a nice little article:
Short Takes On
Books That Don’t Exist
Eleven Essential, Imaginary Beach Reads for Summer
by Steve Hely
My favorite one is called The Empty Staircase by Omar Perus (translated by Richard Milner)
The late Ottoman Empire is the setting for this comedy of manners that follows the ever-failing efforts of a lecherous piano teacher to seduce his students. Perus, long-renowned in his native country, makes a riotous first entry into English through the deft hands of Milner, a scholar in residence at the Canadian Institute for Asia-Minor Studies.”
How awesome is that? Can anyone come up with their own imaginary book descriptions?
