Pistache Returns

Think of Robinson Crusoe stumbling upon a crowd of raucous partygoers on Ibiza, or James Bond working as a round-the-clock emergency plumber. Elsewhere, a reviewer in a hotel guide finds the stable hand in Wuthering Heights rather sullen, Hans Christian Andersen becomes entangled in the subprime mortgage trade, and Stephen King tries his hand at a romance with no gore in sight. Robert Burns shows up to cheer Andy Murray on at Wimbledon, and Harry Potter finds himself abandoned when Ginny ends things and keeps the house.

These pieces take familiar literary figures and classic works and rework them for the present day, mixing and reimagining them into a collection that still reads as serious literature, only seen through an unfamiliar lens.