Last Day, The

Jura finds that the favourite rooms in his house, each designed to reflect an aspect of his personality, are disappearing one by one. He remembers perfectly well playing the piano in ‘The Grand Piano Room’. However, the other members of his family deny the room ever existed. A man publishes a book listing the dates that everybody in the world will die. A family counts down the days to the death-date of their son. An architect receives letters from God giving him choices which throw him into a moral dilemma. In this award-winning collection of stories, ‘Melnikas questions the taboos that limit human freedom.’ Lire