Peter Carey does not simply report on reality nor create an entire sci-fi world, however he immerses the reader in his own 'possible worlds,' aiming to construct the typical realist world in an anomaly reality by fragmenting and weaving between both concepts. ... Tzvetan Todorov, a Bulgarian historian and essayist expresses Carey's short stories as; 'the reader is caught between the explicable and the inexplicable and possibilities multiply' (Woodcock, 2003). ...

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