XYZT

Kristen Alvanson, Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd)

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English

Urbanomic Media Ltd
02 July 2019

Political & legal thriller; EU & European institutions

Series: Urbanomic / K-Pulp

"Genre-defying fiction that accelerates ""cross-cultural dialogue"" into a kaleidoscopic rush of sensory estrangements, fairy tales, and alien encounters.""There's really no difference between us and them, so we're told...."" Based on the author's experiences of living as an American in Iran, Kristen Alvanson's XYZT is a wildly imaginative dramatization of the idea of a ""dialogue of civilizations"" and its potentially outlandish ramifications. As part of an advanced technological test program, volunteers are shuttled back and forth between the US and Iran, hidden from the watchful eyes of immigration police and state bureaucracies. Each is given a single opportunity to be received by a local host and to have a brief authentic experience of what it means to live as ""them"" before being transported back home. But far from heralding the bliss of mutual recognition, the experiment unleashes a series of displacements so disorienting that the fabric of reality begins to fray. Ordinary people become entangled in extraordinary situations, and everyday life bleeds into mythological encounters, alternate universes and dark psychedelic journeys in alien lands where the real and the imaginary are indistinguishable. A treasury of tales told from multiple perspectives and in a multiplicity of styles, XYZT is an audacious cross-genre experiment, a firsthand memoir of what it means to see what ""they"" see, and a science-fictional, nonstandard engagement with anthropology in which cross-cultural encounters take on all the unpredictable features of a contemporary fairy tale."

By: Kristen Alvanson
Series edited by: Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd)
Imprint: Urbanomic Media Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 308g
ISBN: 9781916405233
ISBN 10: 1916405231
Series: Urbanomic / K-Pulp
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 02 July 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kristen Alvanson is an American artist and writer. Her essays and artworks have been published in journals and anthologies worldwide, and she has participated in group and solo shows in New York, Tehran, Shiraz, London, Istanbul, Berlin, Vienna, Singapore, Kessel-Lo, Z rich, and Vilnius.