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Overstaying

Overstaying

Koch, Ariane
Searls, Damion

Paperback

HumorGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1948980193
ISBN13: 9781948980197
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
Published: Sep 17 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
Winner of the most prestigious German prize for debut fiction, Swiss playwright and visual artist Ariane Koch's Overstaying is an absurdist tour de force.

I don't see my writing as chronological or classically narrative, but as spatial--a kind of architecture. I keep adding rooms, and readers can take different paths through the rooms, writes Ariane Koch of Overstaying, her anarchically comic debut. Koch's narrator is an impudent young woman, a contemporary Bartleby living alone in her parents' old house in the small hometown she hates but can't bring herself to leave.

When a visitor turns up, promisingly new, she takes him in, and instantly her life revolves around him. Yet it is hard to tell what, exactly, this visitor is. A mooch, a lover, an absence, a presence--possibly a pet? Mostly, he is a set of contradictions, an occasion for Koch's wild imagination to take readers in brilliant and unexpected directions.

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