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Our Strangers

By Lydia Davis
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Our Strangers by Lydia Davis explores the intricacies of human connection through a series of vignettes that delve into the lives of seemingly unrelated strangers. Each story captures a unique, often mundane, yet profound moment, highlighting the complexities and subtleties of everyday interactions. The author masterfully weaves these narratives to reveal the shared threads of human experience amidst solitude and connection.
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Our Strangers

A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis

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'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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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781805301899

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Books

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 144.0mm

Height: 220.0mm

Weight: 479g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

Lydia Davis is a short story writer, the author of one novel and of two volumes of non-fiction, Essays One (2019) and Essays Two (2021). She is also an award-winning translator from French and other languages. Her honours include a MacArthur Fellowship (2003), the Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2013), the Man Booker International Prize (2013) for her fiction and in 2020 the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She has been decorated as both Chevalier and Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and translation. She lives in upstate New York.

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