The Hearing Trumpet

Synopsis

When ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby receives a hearing trumpet from a friend, she suddenly discovers that the world around her is far stranger than she ever imagined. Banished by her family to an eccentric retirement home run by a mysterious self-improvement cult, Marian is swept into an extraordinary adventure where dreams, mythology, alchemy, and apocalypse intertwine. As reality slips into fantasy, the search for the Holy Grail, an ancient abbess, and the promise of a transformed world become part of her unlikely journey.

Brilliantly inventive, darkly funny, and gloriously surreal, The Hearing Trumpet is Leonora Carrington's masterpiece. A feminist classic and one of the great novels of surrealism, it celebrates imagination, rebellion, old age, and the liberating power of the absurd.

About the Author

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, novelist, and one of the leading figures of the Surrealist movement. Renowned for her extraordinary paintings, fiction, and plays, her work blends mythology, folklore, feminism, and dreamlike imagination. The Hearing Trumpet is widely regarded as her greatest literary achievement.

Publisher
NYRB Classics

Publication Date
October 3, 2023

Format
Paperback

Pages
224

Subjects
Classics · Literary Fiction · Surrealism · Feminist Fiction · Mexican Literature

ISBN
9781681374642