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A nameless woman has lain in her empty bed for weeks, not going out or washing, talking to a cat she has invented: Zelda, a beautiful, book-loving Angora named after Fitzgerald's wife. In a first-person voice split between woman and cat, Zelda recalls a buried village, an unknown father, a mother who leaves with a foreigner met online, the tinsmith Zheko who raises her, a fickle black tomcat, and the abuse of crude local men on the rise. Between memories, the woman waits for a lover's call that never comes, sends her writing to an editor who sends her to a psychiatrist, and faces a psychiatrist who hopes to win fame from her madness.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

134 pages in the original

First published

2015 by Lege Artis

ISBN

9789548311632 (original)