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Language English Pages 224 Originally published 1997 Page count 224 Country United Kingdom | 3.8/5 Goodreads Publication date 1997 ISBN 0-436-20436-3 Genre Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Collector Collector is the third novel by British author Tibor Fischer first published in 1997, by Secker and Warburg in the UK and Henry Holt in the US. It has also been published in Canada and Germany (as Die Voyeurin). Mixed reviews appeared in many notable publications both in the UK and US, for example The Guardian, The New Statesman, The New York Times, The Spectator and The Times Literary Supplement, there being admiration for Fischer's wit and wordplay but a feeling that it lacked a real story. The novel also has been identified as one of the best of the 1990s. According to the publisher's website this is "unquestionably the finest novel ever narrated by a bowl"
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Plot introduction
The narrator of the tale (and the collector of its collectors) is an ancient Sumerian bowl which finds itself in a South London flat of its new owner Rosa. The bowl not only acts as a repository for 5,000 years of human history but is also able to communicate with those who handle it; reading memories and imparting wisdom...