02272nam a22003255i 4500 22784845 OSt 20231009123126.0 220909s2023 mnu 000 0 eng 2022946115 !9781804270349 9781644452356 (paperback) 9781644452363 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC pcc 823 TSE/O Tse, Dorothy, author. 9712 Owlish : a novel / Dorothy Tse, Natascha Bruce. 2306 Minneapolis : Graywolf Press, 2023. 215 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "With your face covered, sneaking into a city you thought you knew, are you still yourself? Or have you crossed to another world, where the streets are unpredictable and the people strangers, where you might at any moment run into some unknown dream version of yourself? 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. Bruce, Natascha, translator. 0 ibc orignew 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 823 TSE/O 823 TSE/O 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC MES MES ENG 2023-10-09 0 823 TSE/O 42828 2023-10-09 12:28:42 699.00 2023-10-09 BK GR20R3 42596 42596