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A Story of Survival
Half a world away from their afflicted homeland, a man and a woman try to make a life for themselves. The appearance of a stranger from the lost country brings excitement but complications as well, since the man is shadowed by a troubled past. All three discover that, even in exile, theyíre not exempt from the conflicts of the place they left behind. All the while, they have to create their own futures out of whatever resources they possess. |
| Author of many acclaimed short stories, K.C. Frederick debuted as a novelist in 1998 with Country of Memory. The novelís imaginary Eastern European setting evoked comparisons to Kafka and Kundera while reviewers noted its distinctly American flavor. As The New York Tmes commented. "It amounts to Old World gloom described with irrepressible New World bounce." Publisherís Weekly hailed its "rare, understated surrealism" and The Philadelphia Inquirer called it "brilliantly disconcerting," at the same time finding "surprising warmth" in "this fascinating novel." In The Fourteenth Day Frederick shifts his scene to this side of the Atlantic in a work that makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar. |  |