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Xie, Xiaohong, 1977-
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College teachers -- Fiction.
Dolls -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.
Oppression (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Hong Kong (China) -- Fiction.
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Xie, Xiaohong, 1977-
College teachers -- Fiction.
Dolls -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.
Oppression (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Hong Kong (China) -- Fiction.
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Owlish : a novel / Dorothy
Tse
; translated by Natascha Bruce.
by
Xie, Xiaohong, 1977-
Anansi International, 2023.
Call #:
FICTION
TSE
Subjects
College teachers --
Fiction
.
Dolls -- Collectors and collecting --
Fiction
.
Oppression (Psychology) --
Fiction
.
Hong Kong (China) --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781487011581 (trade pbk.)
Description:
217 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Translation of: Ying tou mao yu yin yue xiang nü hai.
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."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Psychological
fiction
.
Chinese
fiction
-- Translations into English.
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