Fancy Shop by Valeri Stanoevich

A magical realist story collection that covers a great number of subjects from war to love, Valeri Stanoevich’s Fancy Shop is an impressive exercise in surrealist storytelling, illustrating how the short form can pack a heavy punch. The book smartly addresses heady existential quandaries about truth and the meaning of life, while being surprisingly page-turning for a work of multilayered short fiction. The collection would appeal to an audience who’s looking for complex art that asks hard questions, as Stanoevich writes with both eloquence and nuance.