- Fiction, general, Ceramics, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
The hero of Fischer's tale is a bowl that comes into the possession of a young, lovelorn London art appraiser named Rosa. Rosa's bowl is no ordinary piece of clay, however: it is a ceramic sage, an urn of uncommon erudition that has witnessed all of history's major convulsions - revolutions, famines, massacres, wars - and has survived more than four hundred breakages and three thousand thefts.
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Contemporary, comic, intimate and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Tibor Fischer
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg, Vintage, Owl Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781856195959
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