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The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, Olga Tokarczuk, Pablo Weisz-Carrington 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

Leonora Carrington, Olga Tokarczuk, Pablo Weisz-Carrington

Publisher

NYRB Classics

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781681374642

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.11 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14