The Collector Collector
Author: Fischer, Tibor
ISBN: 9780099268192
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 06 Apr 1998
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
'A work of rare enchantment which could charm a smile out of a stone' Sunday Telegraph
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.
ISBN: 9780099268192
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 06 Apr 1998
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
'A work of rare enchantment which could charm a smile out of a stone' Sunday Telegraph
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.
