Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairytale quest about an occult old ladiesâ home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her sonâs plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place⊠Strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent⊠Surrealist painter Leonora Carringtonâs novel is an exhilarating journey brimming with laugh-out-loud humour and absurd lunacy.
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Pocket
2024-03-31
Fantasy pÄ ett brittiskt Äldershem. Underbar inlÀsning!
Alma
2021-11-15
En fantastisk surrealistisk resa genom Älderdom, naturreligion, dogma och upphÀvandet av den etablerade ordningen med en förtjusande mörk komisk ton alltigenom.