Before novels like Amatka established Karin Tidbeck as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary speculative fiction, there was Jagannath.

A man falls in love with an airship. Families negotiate impossible inheritances. Strange creatures, uncanny technologies and quietly impossible worlds appear without explanation or apology. Tidbeck's stories possess a rare quality: they are profoundly weird without feeling performative. The bizarre is treated as ordinary, which only makes it more unsettling. Beneath the surreal premises lies an ongoing fascination with desire, transformation, loneliness, bureaucracy, kinship and the strange rules people construct in order to live together.

Originally written in Swedish and translated into English by the author, Jagannath introduced many readers to Tidbeck's singular literary universe. The collection sits somewhere between the speculative imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin, the unsettling logic of Angela Carter and the dreamlike absurdity of Leonora Carrington, while remaining entirely its own creature.

Published by the cult independent press Cheeky Frawg Books, this early edition has become increasingly sought after among readers of contemporary weird fiction and small-press speculative literature.

2012 Cheeky Frawg Books paperback edition. Very good condition with light shelf wear.