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Foreign Affairs: Male Tales of Lust & Love
Daniel M. Jaffe
“Jaffe’s lively limpid prose features sharply etched characters and passages that shift between absurdist humor…sly social observation…and wry sensuality.”
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Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Short Story Collections of 2020
In this newest story collection from award-winning writer Daniel M. Jaffe, red-blooded American men make mischief while vacationing abroad. They encounter a serial killer in a Munich bathhouse, a gay Holocaust ghost in Prague, a shape-shifting seductress in Mexico City, a desperate prostitute in Seville, a closeted Catholic school administrator in Dublin, and many others. These stories will transport, titillate, intrigue, and tug at your heartstrings.
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About the Author
Daniel M. Jaffe is a prize-winning writer whose short stories and personal essays have appeared in dozens of anthologies, newspapers, and literary journals in over half a dozen countries. Daniel compiled and edited With Signs and Wonders: An International Anthology of Jewish Fabulist Fiction and translated Here Comes the Messiah!, a Russian-Israeli best-seller by Dina Rubina. Kirkus Reviews selected Daniel’s Foreign Affairs: Male Tales of Lust & Love as one of the Best Indie Books of 2020 and one of the Best Indie Short Story Collections of 2020. Daniel also wrote the collections, Jewish Gentle and Other Stories of Gay-Jewish Living and Domestic Affairs: Tales of American Males. He is the author of the novel-in-stories, The Genealogy of Understanding and the novels, Yeled Tov, The Limits of Pleasure, and The Grand Sex Tour Murders, which Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews, chose as one of their 10 Favorite Books of 2022. Daniel has been profiled in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature and is a recipient of a Norman Mailer Writers Colony residency. He holds degrees from Princeton University (A.B.), Harvard Law School (J.D.), and Vermont College (M.F.A.). Read more at www.DanielJaffe.com.
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Praise for Foreign Affairs:
“Jaffe’s lively limpid prose features sharply etched characters and passages that shift between absurdist humor…sly social observation…and wry sensuality. The result is a redolent blend of atmospheric travelogue, earthy physicality, satire, magical realism, and Kafkaesque disorientation…. Rich, complex, entertaining tales of strangers in strange lands.”
“As a travel writer, Jaffe introduces his destinations as one would a friend, with intimacies known only to a close acquaintance.… His characters are imbued with wit, warmth, and whimsy, and despite some of their sexual proclivities, they are all human and relatable….A fine writer, Jaffe has a command of language and the difficult medium of the short story.… Though some might consider the stories bold in subject matter, Foreign Affairs: Male Tales of Lust & Love is an insightful collection of finely crafted stories.”
“[S]urprising, refreshing, and thought-provoking…. Mr. Jaffe’s tales, both sexual and sexless, have broad appeal to readers occupying places up and down the Kinsey scale…. Kudos to Mr. Jaffe.”
“After reading this collection, I have to confess that I enjoyed reading all of the stories herein, even the ones that were horror (“In the Colony,” “The Return,” “Walpurgisnacht”) or lacked a fantastical element (“Innocence Abroad,” “The Trickster,” “El Bochorno”). Whatever your pleasure—be it erotic delight, absurdist humor, a bit of otherworldly magic, or simply the vicarious thrill of the armchair traveler—I can guarantee that you will find something to enjoy in this travelogue, like as not, several somethings.”