{"product_id":"overstaying-9781948980197","title":"Overstaying","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12326065\"\u003eAriane Koch\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothy a Publishing Project\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 6.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948980197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948980193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC064000\"\u003eAbsurdist\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC060000\"\u003eHumorous | Dark Humor\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC099000\"\u003eWorld Literature | Europe (General)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAriane Koch\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Basel and studied fine arts and interdisciplinarity. She writes--often in collaboration--theatre and performance texts, radio plays and prose. Her texts have won numerous awards and have been performed in places like Basel, Berlin, Cairo, Istanbul, and Moscow. \u003ci\u003eOverstaying\u003c\/i\u003e is her debut novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDamion Searls \u003c\/b\u003ehas translated thirty books from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch, including the novels of Jon Fosse, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.","brand":"Dorothy a Publishing Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48454366986477,"sku":"9781948980197","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_a1e4fbd5-e09f-4e88-840d-1398d437356a.jpg?v=1753498777","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/overstaying-9781948980197","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}