Overstaying
Editorial PUSHKIN PRESS
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Mainland Spain
- Publisher PUSHKIN PRESS
- ISBN13 9781805330165
- ISBN10 1805330160
- Type Book
- Pages 208
- Published 2024
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
English LiteratureOverstaying
Editorial PUSHKIN PRESS
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book Details
An isolated woman clashes with an enigmatic visitor in this funny, jagged parable about integration, difference and hospitalityAn isolated young woman living in a small Swiss town decides to take in a mysterious stranger, known only as 'the visitor'. His arrival introduces disturbance into her carefully sealed life, and the longer he stays, the more confounding he becomes. His joy causes her sadness, his sleep brings her insomnia, and she becomes convinced he is sneaking into her room, even eating her socks.
As she tries to impose orders and regulations on her opaque visitor, the woman's fantasies of power and control grow ever wilder. Sly, wilful and full of slanted humour, Overstaying is a profound and uncanny exploration of hospitality, integration and the stranger within all of us.