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Title Statement | Owlish: a novel / Dorothy Tse ; translated by Natascha Bruce. |
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Author | Xie, Xiaohong, 1977- |
Additional Contributors | Bruce, Natascha |
Xie, Xiaohong,1977- | |
Publication | Toronto: Anansi International,2023. |
Extent of Item | 217 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781487011581 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07030657 |
General Notes | Translation of: Ying tou mao yu yin yue xiang nü hai. |
Languages | Translated from the Chinese. |
Summary | "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."-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Adultery--Fiction |
Ballerinas--Fiction | |
College teachers--Fiction | |
Dolls--Fiction--Collectors and collecting | |
Married men--Fiction | |
Mind and reality--Fiction | |
Oppression (Psychology)--Fiction | |
Student movements--Fiction | |
By Location | Hong Kong (China)--Fiction |
By Genre | Dystopian fiction |
Magic realist fiction | |
Psychological fiction | |
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