Lunar Savings Time

The stories in Lunar Savings Time slip through time and between dreams and waking, between native tongue and elusive translation, long-dead writers and just-opened books. Alex Epstein has created a masterwork in the finest strokes&;stories in which humor, stubborn memory, and strange beauty meet and part ways in less than a page. Through these pages journey a woman who travels back in time to visit a psychoanalyst; Kafka, had he lived and emigrated to Israel after the Holocaust; the wandering Cain; Zen masters, beggars, writers, ghosts. In Epstein&;s lyrical philosophy, every imaginative proposition must answer to the burden of history. &;He can be placed next to Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Kafka, Borges,&; Haaretz has said of Epstein; Lunar Savings Time is his most radical collection yet, a wondrous achievement.