{"product_id":"dialogue-with-a-somnambulist-stories-essays-a-portrait-gallery-hardcover","title":"Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays \u0026 a Portrait Gallery - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChloe Aridjis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.35 x 5.67 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 29, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764626030880,"sku":"9781646221820","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/626e7b941162791dd4ab09cecaf91abd.webp?v=1780253849","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dialogue-with-a-somnambulist-stories-essays-a-portrait-gallery-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}