Il Pesce del Tempo
by Artom, Yael
What was supposed to be a simple bookkeeper’s job in a contemporary art gallery turns first into a series of improbable annoying tasks – cataloguing nails, teeth and hair – for a very rude artist, and then into an unexpected obsession with a work that the protagonist believes he is the only one to understand: a hanging fish made, precisely, of the nails he has catalogued.
Between disgust and fascination, the clerk fights a strenuous inner battle, undecided whether to let himself be seduced by the strange affection he feels for his employer and gallery director or to finally seek a simple job of pure aseptic accounting. Circumstances will decide for him…
- Publishing house Voland
- Year of publication 2022
- Number of pages 208
- ISBN 9788862434836
- Foreign Rights Voland Edizioni Srl diritti@voland.it
- Price 16.00
Artom, Yael
Yael Artom has lived between Italy and Israel for several years. She studied English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem obtaining a Master’s degree, taught academic writing, worked at an NGO, and was a reader for Keter Books, one of the leading publishing houses in Israel. She currently teaches English Literature at an international school in Genoa.
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