It had a pair of binoculars at its neck and it stopped by the railing and began to look out at the sea.” It was as long and thin as a piece of straw, and it moved so lightly that it seemed to slip along above the dust of the road. “I was sitting on the pedestal of a statue when something passed me by. Here is the narrator’s first meeting with the eponymous protagonist:
The “unusual city,” never named, is recognizable as modern Helsinki but a Helsinki at once as commonplace and marvelous as Gabriel García-Marquez’s Macondo.
Portrait (Tales of the Citizens of an Unusual City).” The book consists of a series of chapters, most only a page or two in length, which can also be read as individual stories - a technique similar to that of Lydia Davis and a hallmark of nearly all of Krohn’s fiction here. The volume opens with “Dona Quixote and Other Citizens.
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