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In Landscape with Dog and Other Stories, every moment is an opportunity for transformation. Contemporary Athens wavers before us; the outlines of a sketch darken and blur; the face of a friend is at once beloved and strange. In Sotiropouloss prose, the slightest event, the slightest change in the quality of the light, can alter everything. These stories will be praised for their flashes of beauty and their crackles of dark humor, but what makes them so memorable is something else, impossible to pin downfamiliar and troubling, compelling and unapproachable, Sotiropouloss stories give us a new way of seeing. Ersi Sotiropouloss eleven works of fiction and poetry have won her audiences around the world. Her novel Zigzag through the Bitter-Orange Trees was the first work ever to receive both the Greek national literature prize and its preeminent book critics award.