by Irvine Welsh · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780224036863
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«Marabou Stork Nightmares» is Irvine Welsh's contemporary fiction novel, published by Jonathan Cape in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Roy Strang, a young Scotsman in a coma, escapes into a daydream: hunting a marabou stork in South Africa, while his past in Edinburgh resurfaces amid memories of a dysfunctional family, violence, and bad company. Welsh mixes Scottish dialect and black humor to address abuse of power, guilt, and identity in a raw novel.
Originally published by Jonathan Cape in 1995; the work belongs to contemporary British literature.
For readers of Irvine Welsh who appreciate black humor and stories set in Scotland.
Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker. His novels and short stories, which almost always take place in his native Scotland, are known for their gritty depictions of working-class life and its intricacies; particularly drug addiction, social alienation, lack of opportunity and boredom, amongst others.
