"With a tender wit, Vladislavic cuts through the ordinary, the profound, and the truly perplexing to reveal absurdities and truisms alike. In these two collections from South Africa's most renowned writer, each story follows its own dream logic, each sentence constructed with an architect's precision. In the first collection, 'Missing Persons,' a man learns he can abduct dignitaries from his TV, and keeps them in a menagerie in his spare bedroom;...