The amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban housewife’s affair with a frogman … ‚Disturbing but seductive … Wonderful.‘ Margaret Atwood ‚Perfect.‘ Max Porter ‚Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.‘ Marlon James ‚A feminist masterpiece: tender, erotic, singular.‘ Carmen Maria Machado “Genius … A broadcast from a stranger and more dazzling dimension.‘ Patricia Lockwood ‚Genius … Like Revolutionary Road written by Franz Kafka … Exquisite.‘ The Times ‚Incredibly liberates readers from the awfulness of convention to a state where weirdness and otherness are beautiful.‘ Sarah Hall ‚A devastating fable of mythic proportions … Wondrously peculiar.‘ Irenosen Okojie (foreword) Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs; her husband is unfaithful, but they are too unhappy to get a divorce. One day, she is doing chores when she hears strange voices on the radio announcing that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research – but little does she expect him to arrive in her kitchen. Muscular, vegetarian, sexually magnetic, Larry the frogman is a revelation – and their passionate affair takes them on a journey beyond their wildest dreams … Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs Caliban is a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago ‚A miracle . A perfect novel.‘ New Yorker ‚Every one of its 125 pages is perfect … Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.‘ Harper’s What Readers Are Saying: ‚Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written’***** ‚A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for The Shape of Water.’***** ‚Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb – brilliant, in fact.’***** ‚Absolutely incredible. It’s weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except with lizardman sex.’***** ‚One of the best tongue-in-cheek social satires that I’ve ever read. It delves into gender politics. It takes a long, hard look at mental health. It addresses female sexual freedom and agency. It asks the reader to examine what it means to be human … Genius.’***** ‚Really brilliant: a deconstruction of suburbia by way of monster movies that examines sad realities with hilarious verve … Sometimes you need a sexy frog person to break you out of the ties that bind. ‚***** ‚ Hooked me so deeply I picked it up and finished it the same night … Beautiful … Will stay with me.’***** ‚What the hell just happened?’*****
ISBN: 978-0-571-36798-6
