Overstaying

By: Ariane Koch, Damion Searls (Translator)

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Hardcover | 16 July 2024

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208 Pages

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19.8 x 12.9 x 1.5

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

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.

Industry Reviews

'Comparing this magnificent first novel to the great Kafka does it no disservice - on the contrary' - Neue Zurcher Zeitung

'Full of dreamlike symbols of loneliness and alienation. Overstaying has the makings of a classic' - Die Zeit

'An intense, enigmatic - in the best sense of the word - debut of philosophical force' - Suddeutsche Zeitung

'A brave debut, remarkable in its literary aesthetics' - Deutschlandfunk

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