Our Strangers

By: Lydia Davis

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Hardcover | 5 October 2023

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368 Pages

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22 x 14 x 3.5

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

'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.

Industry Reviews

'Praise for Lydia Davis: This is writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust . . . She's a joy' - ALI SMITH

'A writer of vast intelligence and originality' - Independent on Sunday

'Davis is brilliant . . . She captures words as a hunter might and uses punctuation like a trap Davis is a high priestess of the startling, telling detail . . . a most original and daring mind' - Colm Toibin

'The patron saint of befuddled reality . . . Inimitable' - New York Times

'An author who takes nothing for granted . . . her stories ask existential questions, about us and the world' - Los Angeles Times

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