Overstaying

Name: Overstaying
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SKU: 9781805330165
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By Ariane Koch

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An 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,... Read More

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Overstaying

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An isolated woman clashes with an enigmatic visitor in this funny, jagged parable about alienation, difference and hospitality.

Description

An 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781805330165

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pushkin Press

Contributors:

Translated by Damion Searls
Designed by Jonathan Pelham
Translated by Damion Searls

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Ariane Koch, born in Basel in 1988, studied fine arts and interdisciplinarity. In addition to novels, she writes theatre and performance texts and radio plays. Her texts have won numerous awards and have been performed in places like Basel, Berlin, Cairo, Istanbul and Moscow. Overstaying, her debut novel, won the Swiss Literature Award and the Aspekte Prize for Literature, and is being translated into eight languages.