Marija Pericic Marija Pericic i(11076074 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 2 y separately published work icon Exquisite Corpse Marija Pericic , Ultimo : Ultimo Press , 2023 25767653 2023 single work novel crime historical fiction

'He pulled up his stool and looked me over carefully, lightly touching my skin here and there.
‘Because, my sweet girl, you are so very beautiful and that beauty deserves to be recorded for the world to see.’

'Beautiful but impoverished Lina Dahlstrom is dying of tuberculosis and it seems that no one can save her. All hope is lost until an eccentric doctor, Carl Dance, becomes enthralled with Lina’s charms and vows to do everything in his power to cure her. But when the illness inevitably claims Lina’s life, Dance’s obsession with her only grows and so begins a mad and criminal scheme to bring her back from beyond the grave and claim her as his own forever.

'Set in Stockholm in 1930 and based on true events, Exquisite Corpse is a story about the madness and horror of a romance that knows no bounds.' (Publication summary)

1 Fish Market i "At 1 am, the alarm sounds.", Marija Pericic , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 79 no. 1 2020;
1 2 y separately published work icon The Lost Pages Marija Pericic , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2017 11086064 2017 single work novel historical fiction

'It is 1908, and Max Brod is the rising star of Prague’s literary world. Everything he desires—fame, respect, love—is finally within his reach. But when a rival appears on the scene, Max discovers how quickly he can lose everything he has worked so hard to attain. He knows that the newcomer, Franz Kafka, has the power to eclipse him for good, and he must decide to what lengths he will go to hold onto his success. But there is more to Franz than meets the eye, and Max, too, has secrets that are darker than even he knows, secrets that may in the end destroy both of them.

'The Lost Pages is a richly reimagined story of Max Brod’s life filtered through his relationship with Franz Kafka. In this inspired novel of friendship, fraud, madness and betrayal, Marija Pericicwrites vividly and compellingly of an extraordinary literary rivalry.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Elegy for My Father Marija Pericic , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 37 2016; (p. 26-28)
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