One of Australia's best kept secrets, Gerald Murnane is a writer's writer, a master of mind-bending stories, hailed as "a genius on the level of Beckett" (Teju Cole). Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, these 21 stories range from the haunting "Land Deal," which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams, to "Finger Web," a fractal, quietly terrifying tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny, and "The Interior of Gaaldine," whose anxious protagonist is stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself.