Tree of Codes

Foer, Jonathan Safran

ISBN 10: 0956569218 / ISBN 13: 9780956569219

Published by Visual Editions, London, 2010

About this Item

5-5/16" x 8-7/16", 140 numbered pages with blank versos, each reprinting a page of Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, die cut by Jonathan Safran Foer to create a new next. Printed on acidic paper and perfect bound in uncoated printed card stock cover. Spine is yellowed from exposure, otherwise light shelf wear to cover. Top edge of book block is slightly tanned. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and bright and unmarked. Appears to be an unread copy.

Seller Inventory # 005110

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tree of Codes
• Publisher: Visual Editions, London
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956569218
• ISBN 13: 9780956569219
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Curios & Collectibles
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Tree of Codes is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first ? as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. Tree of Codes is the story of an enormous last day of life ? as one character's life is chased to extinction, Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person’s last day everyone’s story. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his "favorite" book, The Street of Crocodiles by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, and used it as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in Jonathan Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice.

About the Author

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into 36 languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.