Owlish
Author(s): Dorothy Tse (translated by Natascha Bruce)
In a city called Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lackluster career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in his cupboard.
And soon Q lands his crowning acquisition: a music box ballerina named Aliss who has tantalizingly sprung to life.
Guided by his mysterious friend Owlish and inspired by an inexplicably familiar painting, Q embarks on an all-consuming love affair with Aliss, oblivious to the protests spreading across the university that have left his classrooms all but empty.
The mountainous city of Nevers is itself a mercurial character with concrete flesh, glimmering new construction, and "colonial flair." Having fled there as a child refugee, Q thought he knew the faces of the city and its people, but Nevers is alive with secrets and shape-shifting geographies.
The winner of a 2021 PEN/Heim translation fund grant, Owlish is a fantastically eerie debut novel that is also a bold exploration of life under oppressive regimes.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Scribe Publications
- : Scribe Publications
- : 238.0
- : 01 December 2022
- : {"length"=>["21"], "width"=>["13.5"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
- : books
Special Fields
- : Dorothy Tse (translated by Natascha Bruce)
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 224
- : FYT