TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kraus,Chris
AU  - Howe,Fanny
AU  - Wark,McKenzie
TI  - Torpor
SN  - 1781258988
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Tuskar Rock Press
KW  - Married people
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Holocaust survivors
KW  - Memory
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Satirical literature
KW  - lcgft
N1  - First published in the USA in 2006 by Semiotext(e), South Pasadena, California; Includes foreword by Fanny Howe; afterword by Mckenzie Wark
N2  - It's summer 1991, the dawning of the New World Order; and post-MTV, pre-AOL generation. Jerome Shafir and Sylvie Green, two former New Yorkers who can no longer afford an Eat VIllage apartment, set off on a journey across the entire former Soviet Bloc with the intention of adopting a Romanian orphan. There are only two things that Sylvie thinks will save them: a child of their own, and the success of Jerome's long-postponed book, The anthropology of unhappiness
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