{"product_id":"dialogue-with-a-somnambulist-stories-essays-a-portrait-gallery-9781646223008","title":"Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays \u0026 a Portrait Gallery","description":"\u003cb\u003eRenowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN\/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now offers readers her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman guided only by a plastic bag drifting through the streets of Berlin who discovers a nonsense-named bar that is home to papier-mâché monsters and one glass-encased somnambulist. Floating through space, cosmonauts are confronted not only with wonder and astonishment, but tedium and solitude. And in Mexico City, stray dogs animate public spaces, \"infusing them with a noble life force.\" In her pen portraits, Aridjis turns her eye to expats and outsiders, including artists and writers such as Leonora Carrington, Mavis Gallant, and Beatrice Hastings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploring the complexity of exile and urban alienation, \u003ci\u003eDialogue with a Somnambulist\u003c\/i\u003e showcases \"the rare writer who reinvents herself in each book\" (Garth Greenwell) and who is as imaginatively at home in the short form as in her longer fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHLOE ARIDJIS\u003c\/b\u003e is a Mexican American writer based in London. She is the author of three novels, \u003ci\u003eBook of Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger in France; \u003ci\u003eAsunder\u003c\/i\u003e, set in London's National Gallery; and \u003ci\u003eSea Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the 2020 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Aridjis has written for various art journals and was guest curator of the Leonora Carrington exhibition at Tate Liverpool. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014 and the Eccles Centre \u0026amp; Hay Festival Writer's Award in 2020. Aridjis is a founding member of XR Writers Rebel, a group of writers who focus on addressing biodiversity loss and the climate emergency: www.writersrebel.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779027271954,"sku":"9781646223008","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2cef6289-e534-4749-a1e5-a97aaed48f37.jpg?v=1765365037","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dialogue-with-a-somnambulist-stories-essays-a-portrait-gallery-9781646223008","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}