By turns defiant, paranoid, brooding, absurd and knock-down funny, TUND, from Prague-based writer Thor Garcia, is a startling creation. Peopled by a galaxy of fringe operators and hoodlums, tattered no-hopers and doom-drenched true believers, sadistic children and tormented hooch hounds, TUND is a swirling landscape of meltdowns, terrifying visions and punch-drunk epiphanies. Brimming with riotous panache, anarchic soul and sinewy, exultant writing, TUND probes the desolation and cruelties, desperation and contradictions, the hazards and hoopla, of life in an unstable and emotionally crippled age. The English-language Prague Post newspaper said of TUND: “Free-wheeling, word-slinging, experiential and accessible.”(The paper edition of TUND was published by Litteraria Pragensia Books, an independent imprint published in cooperation with the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Charles University, Prague.)
Thor Garcia Bücher
Thor Garcia schreibt über das Leben am Rande des Geschehens. Sein literarischer Stil zeichnet sich durch Direktheit und eine tiefe Erforschung menschlicher Beziehungen aus, oft im Kontext sozialer und persönlicher Desillusionierung. Garcias Werk spiegelt seinen journalistischen Hintergrund wider und bringt eine scharfe Perspektive auf die zeitgenössische Realität in seine Fiktion ein. Seine Prosa ist prägnant und regt zum Nachdenken über die Komplexität der menschlichen Existenz an.



The news clown
- 480 Seiten
- 17 Lesestunden
Thor Garcia’s monumental iconoclastic novel, News Clown, was a finalist in the 2009 Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award. “Fueled by prodigious amounts of alcohol and tobacco, sex and drugs, this narrative skips along from one bizarre episode to the next in the tortuous life of Thor, a young man whose dreams of a literary career have been sidetracked into an undemanding job as a ‘news clown’ for a small wire service in the crime-infested back alleys of Bay City. Meanwhile, as Thor struggles with his inner demons, the national news clowns are cheering on President Wolfgang G. Mnung as he threatens a Middle Eastern dictator who may have stockpiled ‘as many as 4,000 PlayStation video game units’ from which, according to sources, he might fashion a crude supercomputer to control weapons of untold devastation. A flashy, satirical style keeps the narrative fresh, entertaining and eminently readable throughout” (Publishers Weekly).
From Thor Garcia, author of the monumental The News Clown-whose "flashy, satirical style keeps the narrative fresh, entertaining and eminently readable throughout" (Publishers Weekly)-comes a compelling collection of interlocking stories, Only Fools Die of Heartbreak. The hellraising, nightmarish genius of Thor Garcia has returned in this explos