Earwig

This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Buy on Amazon Buy on Waterstones.com
*This page contains affiliate links, so we may earn a small commission when you make a purchase through links on our site at no additional cost to you.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app

1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date 5 Sep 2019 | Archive Date 5 Sep 2019

Talking about this book? Use #Earwig #NetGalley. More hashtag tips!


Description

From the author of cult favourite The Vorrh Trilogy.  

Praise for Brian Catling:

'Brian Catling is simply a genius. His writing is so extraordinary it hurts' Terry Gilliam

'A work of genius' Iain Sinclair

'A benchmark not just for imaginative writing but for the human imagination in itself...Read this book, and marvel' Alan Moore

Earwig got his nickname from his grandfather.

At the start of this story he is employed to look after a strange little girl in a flat in Liege. He spies on her, listens to her by holding a glass up to the wall.

But he never touches her except when, as part of his duties, he is required to is to make teeth of ice and insert them in her gums.

Earwig takes a rare day off, which he spends drinking by himself in Au Metro, a seedy bar full of drunks, dancers and eccentrics. It is St Martin's day and in the evening as crowds parade through the street carrying lanterns through the snow, he is drawn reluctantly into a conversation with a sinister stranger called Tyre. As a result Earwig accidentally maims a waitress with a broken bottle. He understands that on some level Tyre meant this to happen.

Shortly afterwards a black cat is delivered to the flat, unasked for. The girl forms an immediate bond with it, but Earwig identifies it as the enemy.

Travelling across country by train, transporting the girl and her black cat, Earwig is increasingly caught up in a web of unfortunate and increasingly violent coincidences.

Not since Edgar Allan Poe and the Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita has there been such a masterly tale of feline evil.

From the author of cult favourite The Vorrh Trilogy.  

Praise for Brian Catling:

'Brian Catling is simply a genius. His writing is so extraordinary it hurts' Terry Gilliam

'A work of genius' Iain...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781473687103
PRICE £20.00 (GBP)
PAGES 160

Average rating from 15 members


Readers who liked this book also liked: