The stories in Lunar Savings Time slip through time and between dreams
and waking, between native tongue and elusive translation, long-dead
writers and just-opened books. Alex Epstein has created a masterwork in
the finest strokes--stories in which humor, stubborn memory, and strange
beauty meet and part ways in less than a page. Through these pages
journey a woman who travels back in time to visit a psychoanalyst;
Kafka, had he lived and emigrated to Israel after the Holocaust; the
wandering Cain; Zen masters, beggars, writers, ghosts. In Epstein's
lyrical philosophy, every imaginative proposition must answer to the
burden of history. "He can be placed next to Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Kafka,
Borges," Haaretz has said of Epstein; Lunar Savings Time is his most
radical collection yet, a wondrous achievement.