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Owlish : a novel / Dorothy Tse ; translated by Natascha Bruce.

by Xie, Xiaohong, 1977-

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Anansi International, 2023.

College teachers -- Fiction.

Dolls -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.

Oppression (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Hong Kong (China) -- Fiction.

9781487011581 (trade pbk.)

217 p. ; 21 cm.

Translation of: Ying tou mao yu yin yue xiang nü hai.

Translated from the Chinese.

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Psychological fiction.

Chinese fiction -- Translations into English.

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