The Box
A Novel
$29.64
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2026
Summary
In a dark and crooked lane in an unnamed city where it never ceases to snow, a small white box falls from a coat pocket. It is made of paper strips woven tightly together; there is no apparent way to open it without destroying it. What compels a passing witness, a self-described anthrophobe not inclined to engage with other people, to pickup the box and chase after the stranger who dropped it?
The Box follows an impenetrable rectangle as it changes hands in a collapsing metropolis, ca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644452493 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644452499 |
| Author: | Mandy-Suzanne Wong |
| Publisher: | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 140mm x 18mm |
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“If one of César Aira’s sly, sophisticated fictions took a detour through Jane Bennett’s theory of vibrant matter, the result might look something like The Box. At once a detective story, a meditation on art in the Anthropocene, and a speculative encounter with the liveliness of things, Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s startling novel is literature for our times.”–Sofia Samatar, author of The White Mosque
“Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s bold, singular, and brilliant novel is so strange, so enigmatic, it’s nearly impossible to describe. By turns funny and profound, The Box is a feat of language and storytelling and, in the end, a revelation.”–Mark Haber
“The Box is an extraordinary novel, gamesome and philosophical. Not since Borges have I experienced fiction as a perfect maze or puzzle, endlessly pleasing. The reader enters it, fascinated, just as s/he goes out into the snow, which is always falling. Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a writer to watch.”–Amina Cain, author of A Horse at Night and Indelicacy
“Riveting and elegant, The Box brings to mind Kazuo Ishiguro at his most enigmatic.”–Daisy Rockwell, translator of Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree and author of Taste
About The Author
Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a Bermudian writer of fiction and essays. Her award-winning works include the novel Drafts of a Suicide Note; the essay collection Listen, we all bleed; and the chapbooks Awabi and Artificial Wilderness.
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