Our Strangers

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ISBN9781805302193
AuthorsLydia Davis
PublisherCanongate Books
FormatPaperback
Number of pages368
Weight (kg)0.258
Publishing Date06/06/2024
Price (excl. tax)€15.57
Tax€0.93
Price (incl. tax)€16.50
Availability18 units in external warehouse

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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR: FICTION

''A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose'' New Yorker

Lydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life and pinning them for inspection. In Our Strangers, conversations are overheard and misheard, a special delivery letter is mistaken for a rare white butterfly, toddlers learning to speak identify a ping-pong ball as an egg and mumbled remarks betray a marriage. In the glow of Davis''s keen noticing, strangers can become like family and family like strangers.

Our Strangers is a fascinating collection that confirms the genius of a writer whose every attention is transformative.