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  • Published: 4 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446419502
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

The Collector Collector





'A work of rare enchantment which could charm a smile out of a stone' Sunday Telegraph

To a small flat in South London comes a Sumerian bowl: but the bowl is the Collector Collector, clay with something to say, an object d'art who will offer Rosa, its owner, vast swathes of unrecorded history from the last 5, 000 years. Meanwhile, Rosa tries to centre her life and settle the disturbances caused by an uninvited guest, Nikki.

1001 Nights meets the inner city, The Collector Collector is a comic masterpiece and unquestionably the finest novel ever narrated by a bowl.

  • Published: 4 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446419502
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

About the author

Tibor Fischer

Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport in 1959 of Hungarian parents. Brought up in South London he was educated at Cambridge and worked as a journalist. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his first novel, Under the Frog, which also won the Betty Trask Award, and he was nominated as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.

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Praise for The Collector Collector

A work of rare enchantment which could charm a smile out of a stone

Sunday Telegraph

Fischer's impatience and daring pay off. 'I promise you will want to read it more than once,' said Victoria Glendinning, and I've read it three times now, and not because I had to, but because I wanted to. Which is itself out of the ordinary.

Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

So good I promise you will want to read it more than once

Daily Telegraph

Stranger books have seldom been written, and when they have, they've seldom been this fast-paced, this funny, or this effortlessly readable

Detroit Free Press

The freshest, most fascinating novel I've read in years

Tom Robbins
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