Capability-Promoting Policies: Enhancing Individual and Social Development by Otto/Walker/Ziegler | Hardcover | Social Welfare & Social Services

About this book Just looking at the first line, the setting is a place that's threatening to tip over into the unnatural. The uncanny atmosphere is eerily present, like something terrible you can't look away from, and in fact, want to read more of. Here's how the description achieves this: The juxtaposition of a tourist-like welcome and the death imagery that follows Very physical descriptions of "unearthed bones" and "a city thrumming" Things are given agency that shouldn't have agency: the city, dead children Intentions and desires are disconnected from people like bodies without a soul With carefully chosen languages and imagery, the blurb transports us to a Buenos Aires that's teeming with the dead. It's what ties the short stories together. We don't need to know about individual characters or plot lines because the setting is described so intentionally, it makes us feel uncomfortable with our own curiosity for this dark place: this city? And when you make your readers feel somethings, you know your Amazon readers will hit "Buy now". Related topics General Adult, Great Britain/British Isles, Non-Fiction, Politics/Intl Relations, Readings/Anthologies/Collected Works, UNIVERSITY PRESS, capability-promoting policy, capability-friendly policy.