Karen Tidbeck's Jagannath was the second book of the five I bought in a Weird Fiction bundle from storybundle.com. It was also sad and lonesome and strange and magical, and tells stories of a reality quite unlike our own. A man who falls in love with an airship; a woman dealing with the death of her father and the strange disappearance of her mother many years earlier; a the people of strange holiday village in the wilderness of Sweden are some of the short stories in this collection. It is very Scandinavian, and it full of mythical creatures from folklore. It reminded me in some ways of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short stories - the underlying desolation covered by a magical weirdness that permeates the world. Well worth a read.
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