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Rose, whose stories seem to be set in some unidentifiable but vaguely Mitteleuropean nation, and likewise have an uncanny sense of timelessness — the time could be some cobblestoned Victorian past era, or the present, or even the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA journalist’s interview with an artist turns into a dizzying  roundelay of memory and image. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Russian brothers, one blind and one  deaf, build an intricate model town during an interminable train ride  across the steppe. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn annotated discography for the works of a long-lost  silent film star turns into a mysterious document of obsession. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree  Russian sailors must find ways to pass the time on a freighter orphaned  in a foreign port. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA forgotten composer enters a nostalgic dream-world  while marking time in a decaying Romanian seaport.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these 19 dreamlike tales, ghosts of the past mingle with the quiddities of modernity in a bewitching stew where lost masterpieces surface with translations in an invisible language, where image and photograph become mystically entwined, and where the very nature of reality takes on a shimmering sense of possibility and illusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Every madness is logical to its owner,” one of Rose’s characters says. 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