Product Description Roy Kesey Review "Kesey's writing has the moral and figurative power of fairy tale." --DAVID VANN, author of Legend of a Suicide"In haunting, evocative prose, Roy Kesey captures the horrors of war, the insanity of genocide, as well as the fleeting joys of love."--LAILA LALAMI, author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits"Kesey has created a quietly brilliant protest against war, an exquisitely rendered tale in the absurdist spirit of such classics as Slaughterhouse-Five and Catch-22."--DANIEL A. OLIVAS, El Paso Times"I'm still buzzing from Roy Kesey's prize-winning novella, Nothing in the World."--PHILIP GRAHAM, Critical Mass - The National Book Critics Circle"Nothing in the World depicts in deceptively simple but gorgeous prose the transformation of a young Croatian from schoolboy to war hero."--ELIZABETH CRANE, Punk Planet About the Author Roy Kesey's books include his debut novel Pacazo, the award-winning novella Nothing in the World, two historical guidebooks, and an upcoming story collection called Any Deadly Thing. His first collection, All Over, made The L Magazine's recent "Best Books of the Decade" list. His short stories, essays, translations and poems have appeared in more than one hundred magazines, including McSweeney's, Subtropics, Ninth Letter and The Kenyon Review. Among other awards, his work has won two Pushcart Prize special mentions and the 2008 Missouri Review Editors' Prize in Fiction, and has appeared in several anthologies including Best American Short Stories, The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology and New Sudden Fiction. He is the recipient of a 2010 prose fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently lives in Maryland with his wife and children.