War Crimes (1979) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer Peter Carey.
[1] Writing in The Canberra Times Marion Halligan noted: "This imagination of Carey's is a source of amazement throughout the collection of stories.
One is conscious of the elaborate construction of other worlds, as close to ours as the reflection in a faintly distorting mirror.
Carey mostly writes in a grave formal prose the more surrealistic the stories...Myths, fables for our time, worlds of the imagination that illuminate as they cast doubt on the real world: Carey's stories are a stimulating excursion into the relevance of the mysterious.
He charms, he amazes, he appals, he amuses; our emotions are not often run through so full a gamut.