Shearsman Books

Paperback, 119pp, 8x5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9780907562368

Published in association with Gratton Street Irregulars, The Dance at Mociu collects Peter Riley's creative prose for the first time. This is Peter Riley's third Shearsman volume and also the first volume of creative prose published by the press. The Dance at Mociu brings together some thirty 'stories' of Transylvania, a part of the world that has fascinated the author for many years, and which he and his wife have visited annually since 1998. These pieces are not stories in the conventional sense, but range from meditation to epiphany, from observation to recordings of an old world that seems threatened — the world of 'Old Europe', that Central Europe whose borders were flexible in the extreme, whose populations found themselves changing nationalities with alarming frequency in the 20th century, and whose cultures survived all the vicissitudes of war and rampant nationalisms only to face an uncertain future in the post-communist present. To get a taste of what Mociu has to offer, click here for the book's support pages, which feature the author's Preface to the book, plus two sample texts, two previously unpublished companion texts, and a series of photographs taken by the author in Transylvania.

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