Like prose poems, the stories work not through conventional structures of plot or character but by building up a welter of images that create their own logic.Their anthropomorphism can be dizzying.

• 多年以后，当男孩问他的父亲那本书去哪了，他被告知那只是“一个神话，当我们还年轻的时候相信它是真实的，但等我们变老了，我们就不再把它当一回事了。”