A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: 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.
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- Authors:
- Davis, Lydia
- Year Published:
- 2023
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781805301899
- Number of Pages:
- 368
- Publication Date:
- 05/10/2023
- Publisher:
- Canongate Books
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781805301899