The Diary of Mr. Pinke (AJ)

Poet Ewald Murrer´s most celebrated work of prose, The diary of MR. Pinke relates the strange happenings witnesses by a group of villages - among who are a rabbi, a magic goat, an ancient Gypsy, a family of unicorn hunters, and a fortunetellet - in an atmospherically surreal Galicia where people and beasts float across the landscape, as if in traces of their passage.Murrer´s imaginative poetic prose imbues imbues the tale with a unique and personal lyricism, while his combination of folklore and myth draws on the creative tradition of the bes Central European writing.