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The Hearing Trumpet by Carrington, Leonora; Tokarczuk, Olga is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Hearing Trumpet about?

An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is “hard of hearing” but “full of life.”

Who reads The Hearing Trumpet?

Author

Carrington, Leonora; Tokarczuk, Olga

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9781681374642

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy

Rating

4.11 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13