Altmann’s Tongue - Brian Evenson Audiobook

Written by Brian Evenson
Read by Neil Shah
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Evenson’s first collection of 25 short stories and one novella, Altmann’s Tongue (1994), garnered comparisons to Paul Bowles, Poe, and Kafka and is considered by many an existential masterpiece.

Chilling and severe, these stories reveal humans struggling with the brutality of the world and with one another, and trying to talk their way out of their own helplessness and fear.

In Evenson’s world, moral and social categories dissolve and mutate, and our own understanding of our relationship to reality itself seems increasingly vexed and contingent. A father buries his daughter without telling his wife that she has died. A man commits two murders, one justified, the other not, and then undergoes a startling transformation. A detective wanders through a case, becoming further and further estranged from even the possibility of truth.

Audio Release Date:
June 21 2022

9 hrs and 16 mins