Wong Mandy - Suzanne
Wong Mandy - Suzanne - The Box A Novel - Paperback
Wong Mandy - Suzanne - The Box A Novel - Paperback
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Description: * Longlisted FOR THE 2023 Republic OF Consciousness Prize * A stylistically dazzling novel about objects people and the forces and seams between them. Of course each thing has its own sides to every story. In a dark and crooked lane in an unnamed city where it never ceases to snow a small white box falls from a coat pocket. It is made of paper strips woven tightly together; there is no apparent way to open it without destroying it. What compels a passing witness a self - described anthrophobe not inclined to engage with other people to pick up the box and chase after the stranger who dropped it? The Box follows an impenetrable rectangle as it changes hands in a collapsing metropolis causing confluences conflicts rifts and disasters. Different narrators each with a distinctive voice give secondhand accounts of decisive moments in the box's life. From the anthrophobe to a newly hired curator of a renowned art collection from a couple who own an antiquarian bookshop to a hotel bartender hiding from a terrible past the storytellers repeat rumors and rely on faulty memories grasping at something that continually escapes them. Haunting their recollections is one mysterious woman who convinced of the box's good or evil powers pursues it with deadly desperation. In this mesmerizing intricately constructed puzzle of a novel Mandy - Suzanne Wong challenges our understanding of subjects and objects of cause and effect. Is it only humans who have agency? What is or isn t animate? What do we value and what do we discard?
Title: The Box A Novel
Author(s): Wong Mandy - Suzanne
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644452493
Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/19/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: * Longlisted FOR THE 2023 Republic OF Consciousness Prize * A stylistically dazzling novel about objects people and the forces and seams between them. Of course each thing has its own sides to every story. In a dark and crooked lane in an unnamed city where it never ceases to snow a small white box falls from a coat pocket. It is made of paper strips woven tightly together; there is no apparent way to open it without destroying it. What compels a passing witness a self - described anthrophobe not inclined to engage with other people to pick up the box and chase after the stranger who dropped it? The Box follows an impenetrable rectangle as it changes hands in a collapsing metropolis causing confluences conflicts rifts and disasters. Different narrators each with a distinctive voice give secondhand accounts of decisive moments in the box's life. From the anthrophobe to a newly hired curator of a renowned art collection from a couple who own an antiquarian bookshop to a hotel bartender hiding from a terrible past the storytellers repeat rumors and rely on faulty memories grasping at something that continually escapes them. Haunting their recollections is one mysterious woman who convinced of the box's good or evil powers pursues it with deadly desperation. In this mesmerizing intricately constructed puzzle of a novel Mandy - Suzanne Wong challenges our understanding of subjects and objects of cause and effect. Is it only humans who have agency? What is or isn t animate? What do we value and what do we discard?
Title: The Box A Novel
Author(s): Wong Mandy - Suzanne
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644452493
Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/19/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
