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- ISBN 9781907773273
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2012
- Publisher: Salt Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Shortlisted for the 2013 East Midlands Book Award
Entertaining Strangers is a tragi-comedy about the eccentric Edwin Prince – a depressive intellectual obsessed with high culture and ants – and the mysterious, homeless narrator Jules, who gradually unravels Edwin’s impossible relationships with his landlady, neurotic mother, psychotic brother, domineering ex-wife, dead grandfather and, above all, his ant-farm. At the same time, Jules continually experiences traumatic memories full of fire and water, and gradually a terrible pre-history emerges from beneath all of the other stories, which seems somehow to shape both Jules’s fiery dreams and Edwin’s obsessions – a great fire, massacre and one girl's drowning in Smyrna, 75 years earlier.
