Seventeen Cigarettes - A Catalog of Broken Things

Ronju Ahmed

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Seventeen Cigarettes: A Catalog of Broken Things is a luminous, intimate collection of short pieces that track a life by its small collapses — the hum of a refrigerator, a voicemail left unheard, a stubborn blinking clock, the pallor of morning light. Ronju Ahmed writes in a steady, observant prose that makes the ordinary feel like a landscape of remembered loss and strange tenderness.
 
These linked vignettes move through apartment halls, corner coffee shops, and the ten slow blocks home, following a narrator who counts steps and cigarettes the way other people keep time by calendars. Each fragment is both a story and a map — of memory that knots instead of following a line, of what we leave behind, and what we carry like a secret weight. For readers of quiet literary fiction and contemporary short-form storytelling, Seventeen Cigarettes is a small, sharp book that lingers.

Disponibile da: 16/09/2025.

Lunghezza di stampa: 300 pagine.

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