{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothy a Publishing Project\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948980197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Ariane Koch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44413652009141,"sku":"9781948980197","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d6d7ff9b-1d07-45e1-8194-d12c1a3c8e69.jpg?v=1720538131","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/overstaying-9781948980197","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}