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The Collector Collector
Tibor Fischer
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Description for The Collector Collector
Paperback. To a small flat in South London comes a Sumerian bowl, but the bowl is the Collector Collector, clay with something to say, an object d'art who will offer Rosa, its owner, vast swathes of unrecorded history from the last 5000 years. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
To a small flat in South London comes a Sumerian bowl: but the bowl is the Collector Collector, clay with something to say, an object d'art who will offer Rosa, its owner, vast swathes of unrecorded history from the last 5, 000 years. Meanwhile, Rosa tries to centre her life and settle the disturbances caused by an uninvited guest, Nikki.
1001 Nights meets the inner city, The Collector Collector is a comic masterpiece and unquestionably the finest novel ever narrated by a bowl.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099268192
SKU
V9780099268192
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Tibor Fischer
Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport in 1959. Brought up in London, where he now lives, he was educated at Cambridge and worked as a journalist. He has won the Betty Trask Award, been short-listed for the Booker, and been nominated one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists. Since Under the Frog, his debut, he has published ... Read more
Reviews for The Collector Collector
Fischer's impatience and daring pay off. 'I promise you will want to read it more than once,' said Victoria Glendinning, and I've read it three times now, and not because I had to, but because I wanted to. Which is itself out of the ordinary.
Nicholas Lezard
Guardian
Stranger books have seldom been written, and when they ... Read more
Nicholas Lezard
Guardian
Stranger books have seldom been written, and when they ... Read more