The Hearing Trumpet
Leonora Carrington's 1974 surrealist novel about a hard-of-hearing woman in her nineties sent to a peculiar old-age home.
The Hearing Trumpet is a 1974 surrealist novel by the Mexican-British author Leonora Carrington. It follows Marian, a hard-of-hearing woman in her nineties who is sent off to a peculiar old-age home by her family. Carrington was a British and Mexican surrealist painter and novelist. Olga Tokarczuk calls it wonderful, funny and profound, and says it helped her craft her own narrator, Janina.
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Olga Tokarczuk
A wonderful, funny, yet profound novel told from the perspective of an elderly woman.
Reading List · January 2025
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