{"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\u003cbr\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. \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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dorothy a Publishing Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50875431584018,"sku":"9781948980197","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/overstaying-9781948980197","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}