{"product_id":"dialogue-with-a-somnambulist-chloe-aridjis-9781646223008","title":"Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays \u0026 a Portrait Gallery","description":"\u003cb\u003eRenowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN\/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now offers readers her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman guided only by a plastic bag drifting through the streets of Berlin who discovers a nonsense-named bar that is home to papier-mâché monsters and one glass-encased somnambulist. Floating through space, cosmonauts are confronted not only with wonder and astonishment, but tedium and solitude. And in Mexico City, stray dogs animate public spaces, \"infusing them with a noble life force.\" In her pen portraits, Aridjis turns her eye to expats and outsiders, including artists and writers such as Leonora Carrington, Mavis Gallant, and Beatrice Hastings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploring the complexity of exile and urban alienation, \u003ci\u003eDialogue with a Somnambulist\u003c\/i\u003e showcases \"the rare writer who reinvents herself in each book\" (Garth Greenwell) and who is as imaginatively at home in the short form as in her longer fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chloe Aridjis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646223004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646223008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Chloe Aridjis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47200859914495,"sku":"9781646223008","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be4ff129-62fd-4ab8-9b03-4664105619e6.jpg?v=1756788041","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dialogue-with-a-somnambulist-chloe-aridjis-9781646223008","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}