Doll's Alphabet

Doll's Alphabet Synopsis

"e;This doll's eye view is a total delight and surveys a world awash with shadowy wit and exquisite collisions of beauty and the grotesque."e; Helen Oyeyemi, author of Boy, Snow, Bird"e;Down to its most particular details, The Doll's Alphabet creates an individual worlda landscape I have never encountered before, which now feels like it was been waiting to be captured, and waiting to captivate, all along."e; Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be"e;Marvellous. Grudova understands that the best writing has to pull off the hardest aesthetic trickit has to be both memorable and fleeting."e; Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodiesby constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in The Doll's Alphabet are by turns child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark: the marriage of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.Camilla Grudova lives in Toronto. She holds a degree in Art History and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in The White Review and Granta.