Minor Angels

From Antoine Volodine comes a deeply disturbing and darkly hilarious novel whose full meaning, its author asserts, will be found not in the books pages but in the dreams people will have after reading it. In Minor Angels Volodine depicts a postcataclysmic world in which the forces of capitalism have begun to reestablish themselves. Sharply opposed to such a trend, a group of crones confined to a nursing homeall of them apparently immortalresolves to create an avenging grandson fashioned of lint and rags. Though conjured to crush the rebirth of capitalism, the grandson is instead seduced by its charmsonly to fall back into the hands of his creators, where he manages to forestall his punishment by reciting one narract a day. It is these narracts, or prose poems, that compose the text of Minor Angels.