Kalpa Imperial

Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

( Spanish - Kalpa Imperial - 1983 )

novel by Angelica Gorodischer

translated by Ursula le Guiin

Published - Small Beer Press - paperback - 2003
ISBN: 1931520054 / 9781931520058

IBooks Inc. - hardback - 2005
ISBN: 1416504117 / 9781416504115 & 1596870451 / 9781596870451 ( ? )

Small Beer Press ( Barnes & Noble ) - Nook - 2011
ISBN: 9781618730190 ( no BN ID given )

Small Beer Press ( Amazon ) - kindle - 2011
ASIN: B005LIYZ9S

synopsis
In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories.

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