Owlish

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2023

ISBN-13: 9781487011598

<p><strong>The winner of a 2021 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, <em>Owlish</em> is a fantastically eerie debut novel that is also a bold exploration of life under oppressive regimes. </strong></p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>