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Review of the Looomingu Raamatukogu paperback edition (September 2020)
Armin Kõomägi's style is the 3-4 page short-short story which is usually satirical or ventures into the surreal. They often take unexpected tangents but they still have enough basis in reality to be a comment on our current life and culture. Sometimes they come with bizarre dark humour such as the stories of a murderous Roomba lawnmower or of the young bull calf whose dreams of procreation are cruelly cut short. A future space-age scavenger is seen to be picking up the debris from a future United States of Amazon. A future Estonian Prime Minister auctions off the entire country with the proceeds to be divided throughout the population in order to make everyone in the country rich.
There has been hardly any Kõomägi in translation yet, but I would think that his cynical humour would translate fairly well internationally without the need for extensive footnotes.
Trivia and Link
To the best of my knowledge, there is only a single translation of an Armin Kõomägi short story in English to date. This is Logisticians Anonymous which appeared in Best European Fiction 2012 (2011) ed, Aleksandar Hemon. The translation is reproduced at the Estonian Literature Centre website here. ( )