The Mooneating Newborn

By Levon Shahnur

The heroes of these stories are people lost in time and space, who try to understand the reality around them, to discern the layers of the outside world and peel them off. With new and unusual perspectives, philosophical consultations, often anti-utopian narratives and a mystic, ritualistic style, the author seeks to penetrate the depths of life, going beyond accepted conventions in his depiction of the world as well as the things and people it contains. The recurring protagonist is a person who constantly feels fragmented, a twin of love, someone who hides his thinking and the diseased word that others want to extract from his mind. Each sensory organ requires a personal approach after perceiving something from the outside world. Everything has its twin in a person's head, even love, and sometimes it is necessary to write about them so that they look for other places to live... There are micro-transitions from one story to the next, allowing the text to breathe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jul 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781649793102

Levon Shahnur

Levon Shahnur (Shahnazaryan) was born on October 16, 1987. He writes prose and his first collection of stories, Night of Creation, was published in 2013. He has received several awards, including the 2015 Russian Speech (“Russkaya Rech”) award for Best Prose Piece, with the winning story published in a collection of literature from the Commonwealth of Independent States. His stories are regularly featured in Armenian and international publications. Shahnur’s work has been translated into several languages. His novel Journey: Before Love was published in 2016. One of his stories, The Mooneating Newborn, was developed into a screenplay and movie in 2018. The story also featured in his collection called The Pain Capturer, published in 2018. Levon Shahnur is a member of the Union of Writers and the Union of Journalists of the Republic of Armenia.

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