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The Doll's Alphabet
2017
First Published
3.87
Average Rating
176
Number of Pages

Surreal, ambitious, and exquisitely conceived, The Doll's Alphabetis a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies - many images recur in stories that are in turn child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark. In Unstitching, a feminist revolution takes place. In Waxy, a factory worker fights to keep hold of her Man in a society where it is frowned upon to be Manless. In Agata's Machine, two schoolgirls conjure a Pierrot and an angel in a dank attic room. In Notes from a Spider, a half-man, half-spider finds love in a great European city. By constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has come up with a method for storytelling that is highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. Content:

  • Unstitching (2017)
  • The Mouse Queen (2017)
  • The Gothic Society (2017)
  • Waxy (2016)
  • The Doll's Alphabet (2017)
  • The Mermaid (2017)
  • Agata's Machine (2015)
  • Rhinoceros (2017)
  • The Sad Tale of the Sconce (2017)
  • Edward, Do Not Pamper the Dead (2017)
  • Hungarian Sprats (2017)
  • The Moth Emporium (2017)
  • Notes from a Spider (2017)
Avg Rating
3.87
Number of Ratings
1,872
5 STARS
29%
4 STARS
40%
3 STARS
22%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
2%
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Author

Camilla Grudova
Camilla Grudova
Author · 7 books

Camilla Grudova lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. She holds a degree in art history and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in the White Review and Granta. Grudova originally posted stories on her Tumblr blog before being spotted by an editor from The White Review. Her story, "Waxy" (Granta 136), was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for short fiction and won the Shirley Jackson Award for best novelette.

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