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ISBN 10: 0578489767 ISBN 13: 9780578489766
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Published by Vintage Publishing, London, 2026
ISBN 10: 1784746371 ISBN 13: 9781784746377
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A beautifully written and dreamlike new novel about metamorphosis, desire and magic lanterns from award-winning writer Chloe Aridjis'One of our boldest writers' Deborah LevyA magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis and mortality.Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia and meets Wilhelmina, an elderly German woman with pneumonia, who collects pre-cinema toys and instruments. The two of them embark on a series of dream-like conversations in the hospital corridors. Wilhelmina puts on a magic lantern show for Flora, leaving her spellbound.When things take an unexpected turn, Flora finds herself entrusted with an important mission. She returns to London, where she resumes her job polishing silver at a jewellery shop, and strikes up a strange friendship with Wilhelmina's son, Max. As Flora dips in and out of her imagination, she is increasingly aware it's not only the magic lantern that projects, and her perception of reality is subtly altered.'One of the most brilliant novelists working in English today' Garth Greenwell'The politics of her prose is existential rather than anecdotal, as it was with Kafka's' Zadie Smith'A subtle and courageous writer' Ali Smith'Chloe Aridjis is crafting a poetics of the strange' TLS Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Language: English
Published by Vintage Publishing, GB, 2026
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: New. 'One of our boldest writers' Deborah LevyA magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis and mortality.Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia and meets Wilhelmina, an elderly German woman with pneumonia, who collects pre-cinema toys and instruments. The two of them embark on a series of dream-like conversations in the hospital corridors. Wilhelmina puts on a magic lantern show for Flora, leaving her spellbound.When things take an unexpected turn, Flora finds herself entrusted with an important mission. She returns to London, where she resumes her job polishing silver at a jewellery shop, and strikes up a strange friendship with Wilhelmina's son, Max. As Flora dips in and out of her imagination, she is increasingly aware it's not only the magic lantern that projects, and her perception of reality is subtly altered.'One of the most brilliant novelists working in English today' Garth Greenwell'The politics of her prose is existential rather than anecdotal, as it was with Kafka's' Zadie Smith'A subtle and courageous writer' Ali Smith'Chloe Aridjis is crafting a poetics of the strange' TLS.
Language: English
Published by Columbia University Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0231066279 ISBN 13: 9780231066273
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Published by Columbia University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0231066260 ISBN 13: 9780231066266
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Published by Free Association Books, 1996
ISBN 10: 0946960607 ISBN 13: 9780946960606
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Published by Chatto & Windus, 2026. 9781784746377, 2026
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Published by Anna Christine McCarty 2019-03, 2019
ISBN 10: 0578489767 ISBN 13: 9780578489766
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Published by Anna Christine McCarty, 2019
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Published by Anna Christine McCarty, 2019
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Language: English
Published by Free Association Books, 1987
ISBN 10: 0946960593 ISBN 13: 9780946960590
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Language: English
Published by Free Association Books, 1987
ISBN 10: 0946960593 ISBN 13: 9780946960590
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Language: English
Published by Columbia University Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0231066279 ISBN 13: 9780231066273
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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known. Book.
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Language: English
Published by Columbia University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0231066260 ISBN 13: 9780231066266
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