02351nam a22003255i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000190008802000320010702000270013904000230016604200080018908200150019710000330021224500540024526300090029926400420030830000140035033600260036433700280039033800270041852013220044570000340176790600450180194200360184695201260188299900170200822784845OSt20231009123126.0220909s2023    mnu           000 0 eng    a  2022946115  a!9781804270349  a9781644452356 q(paperback)  z9781644452363q(ebook)  aDLCbengerdacDLC  apcc  a823bTSE/O  aTse, Dorothy,eauthor.9971210aOwlish :ba novel /cDorothy Tse, Natascha Bruce.  a2306 1aMinneapolis :bGraywolf Press,c2023.  a215 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"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"--cProvided by publisher.1 aBruce, Natascha,etranslator.  a0bibccorignewd2eepcnf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBKh823iTSE/Ok823mTSE/O  00102ddc40708FICaMESbMEScENGd2023-10-09l0o823 TSE/Op42828r2023-10-09 12:28:42v699.00w2023-10-09yBKzGR20R3  c42596d42596