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Owlish

By: Dorothy Tse, Natascha Bruce - translator
Narrated by: Jennifer Leong
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Summary

In the mountainous city of Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lacklustre career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in his cupboard. And soon Q lands his crowning acquisition: a life-sized 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 sinister forces encroaching on his city and the protests spreading across the university that have left his classrooms all but empty.

A deliciously dark subversion of the fairy-tale form set in an alternate Hong Kong, Dorothy Tse’s extraordinary debut novel is a boldly inventive exploration of life under oppressive regimes and an urgent warning against the insidious perils of apathy and indifference.

©2020 Dorothy Tse (P)2023 Fitzcarraldo Editions
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"Beguilingly eerie, richly textured, the pages of Owlish are drenched in strange beauty and menace." (Sophie Mackintosh, author of Cursed Bread)

"A magical and potent tale for these tyrannical times." (NoViolet Bulawayo, author of Glory)

"Tse joins the ranks of artists currently remaking the world, from Yoko Tawada to César Aira." (Joyelle McSweeney, author of Toxicon and Arachne)

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