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Flesh-Coloured Dominoes
When Baroness Valtraute von Bruegen`s officer husband`s body is severed in two she is delighted to find that the lower half has been sewn onto the upper body of the humble local Captain Ulste. She conceives a child only to see the return of her husband in one piece. What happens next is both indescribably funny and darkly painful. A beautifully written Surrealist novel cum political allegory, `Flesh-Coloured Dominoes` transports the reader between 18th-century Baltic gentry and the narrator`s life in the modern world. The connection between the two narratives gradually becomes clear in a mesmerising fantasy of love, lust, and loss as Skijuns creates a work of sublime art that is funny, moving, enlightening and philosophical in equal measure.