{"product_id":"overstaying","title":"Overstaying","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eOverstaying\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAriane Koch\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781948980197\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDorothy, a publishing project\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the most prestigious German prize for debut fiction, Swiss playwright and visual artist Ariane Koch's \u003ci\u003eOverstaying\u003c\/i\u003e is an absurdist tour de force.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I don't see my writing as chronological or classically narrative, but as spatial--a kind of architecture. I keep adding rooms, and readers can take different paths through the rooms,\" writes Ariane Koch of \u003ci\u003eOverstaying\u003c\/i\u003e, her anarchically comic debut. Koch's narrator is an impudent young woman, a contemporary Bartleby living alone in her parents' old house in the small hometown she hates but can't bring herself to leave. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a visitor turns up, promisingly new, she takes him in, and instantly her life revolves around him. Yet it is hard to tell what, exactly, this visitor \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e. A mooch, a lover, an absence, a presence--possibly a pet? Mostly, he is a set of contradictions, an occasion for Koch's wild imagination to take readers in brilliant and unexpected directions.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Dorothy, a publishing project","offers":[{"title":"Overstaying | Ariane Koch | Paperback | 9781948980197 | New | Fiction 1622660","offer_id":50694115557634,"sku":"1622660","price":30.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91yTrHNiqcL.jpg?v=1791544150","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/overstaying","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}