Head Full of Joy [Paperback]

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. This collection of sixteen stories takes us on an eccentric tour of contemporary existence. A lonely man rants about everything under the sun, including the sun itself. A vampire recounts the history and travails of the Balkans bloodsucking community. A grief-stricken widower leads his son on a frantic search through the night. A husband and his pregnant wife argue, in Raymond Carver-like fashion, over whether Carvers stories will have a negative influence on the baby. In prose rich with Nabokovian detail and barroom humor, Spahi paints a portrait of a world so strange, it could only exist in the twenty-first century.- Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature
[Head Full of Joy] presents a corpus of 16 unusual tales featuring episodes from the life of each story's hero. Each story is told by an omniscient narrator or the hero himself, and they paint a picture showing the collision of the outer and inner world of modern man, providing a distinct interpretation of the universal values of life.