Our Strangers Lydia Davis Canongate Books

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR: FICTION \'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose\' New YorkerLydia 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. Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm