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The Hearing Trumpet

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Availability:In StockContributor:Leonora Carrington, Olga Tokarczuk (Afterword by)Publish date:2021-01-05Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681374642ISBN-10:1681374641UPC:9781681374642Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Fantasy, Women, AbsurdistBook Topic:HumorousSize:8.20 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC0MHRHT1S
An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Bj rk and Luis Bu uel.

Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth's rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is "hard of hearing" but "full of life."
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681374642ISBN-10:1681374641UPC:9781681374642Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Fantasy, Women, AbsurdistBook Topic:HumorousSize:8.20 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC0MHRHT1S
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was born in England and spent most of her adult life in Mexico City, where she participated in the Surrealist movement as an artist, painter, and novelist. NYRB Classics published her memoir Down Below and a collection of her illustrated stories for children, The Milk of Dreams, in 2017.

Olga Tokarczuk is the author of nine novels and three short-story collections. Her novel Flights won the 2018 International Booker Prize, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Publisher: New York Review of Books

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