A Labour of Moles

Lavishly published by Sylph Editions with the Center for Writers and Translators at the American University of Paris, the "Cahiers Series" features some of the most venerable names in publishing and makes available new explorations in writing and translation. "A Labour of Moles", the newest addition to this groundbreaking series, is a postmodern fable by Ivan Vladislavic, one of South Africa's most imaginative writers. In this playful riddle, the reader is taken down to the perspective of an unidentified word in a dictionary. Accompanied by nineteen spectacular color illustrations, Vladislavic's "Labour of Moles" takes the reader where few have trod - inside the building blocks of fiction itself.