«I like picturing this book as a garden. I have planted each short story separately, but the higher the stems grow, the more they intertwine, making them seem like one single tree. This tree could perhaps be a novel. Buried in its roots, lies Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Sown in the soil, you can find many literary works of the past. Their protagonists rise, like ghosts, and watch themselves reflected on the pages, as if unwilling to fathom that they are nothing but fertilizer for this garden». E. M.

Obscene Orchids comprises eleven short stories, each one conversing with a well-known work of literature, thus establishing intertextuality as a foundational component of the book. Its main focus lies in the characters’ identities, the way they are shaped, transformed or overturned. Meanwhile, other matters develop, such as the different versions of sexuality; the relationships and the blood bonds; art and its reflection in reality. The heroes weave into and out of one story to the next, every time bringing forth a new tile, once belonging to a shattered mosaic. The author has combined all the fragments in such a way that with every turning of this kaleidoscopic book, a new, unique image is formed.

These eleven short stories, if minimized to the number of six, could in fact form a novel, the main body of which consist of the imaginary descendants of Lady Chatterley.

Kichli, 2015, 377 p.