{"product_id":"the-collector-collector-9780099268192","title":"The Collector Collector","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo a small flat in South London comes a Sumerian bowl: but the bowl is the Collector Collector, clay with something to say, an \u003ci\u003eobject d''art\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1001 Nights\u003c\/i\u003e meets the inner city, \u003ci\u003eThe Collector Collector\u003c\/i\u003e is a comic masterpiece and unquestionably the finest novel ever narrated by a bowl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFischer'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 *\u003cbr\u003eStranger 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 *\u003cbr\u003eThe freshest, most fascinating novel I've read in years * Tom Robbins *\u003cbr\u003eA work of rare enchantment which could charm a smile out of a stone * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eSo good I promise you will want to read it more than once * Daily Telegraph *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017511010647,"sku":"9780099268192","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099268192.jpg?v=1750773789","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-collector-collector-9780099268192","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}