{"product_id":"9781948980197","title":"Overstaying","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback | 136 pages | 5.50\" x 7.00\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ariane Koch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648300671208,"sku":"9781948980197x","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8d8bf9f4-19ad-4966-bc6f-c3411f942678.jpg?v=1711325916","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/9781948980197","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}