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Synopsis

Stealthy, willful, and coldly erotic, Boris Pintar's 'Family Parables' combine the ruthlessness of folktales, the warmth of clinical reports, and the intricacies of postmodernism into something thrillingly perverse. The stories are a fiercely fine introduction to queer lives in another culture. “Blossoms in Autumn,” about a lonely man’s frustrated search for love, is among the gayest of the stories; in “An Open Society,” the narrator is a gay man but the focus is on his family; “Slovene Athens” is narrated by a transman, and in his award-winning story “The Symposium,” a woman falls in love with – and after their marriage accepts the male lovers of – a gay man. It’s a mix of most welcome queer voices, in a collection with depth.