{"product_id":"the-song-of-stork-and-dromedary-a-novel","title":"The Song of Stork and Dromedary: A Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynopsis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Song of Stork and Dromedary\u003c\/em\u003e, Anjet Daanje constructs an intricate literary mystery around the life and afterlife of a nineteenth-century writer named Eliza May Drayden. Living in the small Yorkshire village of Bridge Fowling, Eliza is an intensely private woman whose single novel, \u003cem\u003eHaeger Mass\u003c\/em\u003e, acquires a strange and enduring reputation only after her death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story unfolds across almost three hundred years, with each new section introducing another generation of characters attempting to understand Eliza, her writing, and the unsettling events surrounding her life. Sisters, scholars, lovers, and descendants encounter fragments of the mystery from different perspectives, their accounts overlapping and contradicting one another. Diaries, manuscripts, poetry, drawings, ghostly encounters, and literary scholarship gradually become pieces of an elaborate puzzle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving between historical fiction, Gothic mystery, philosophical inquiry, and reflections on science and mortality, Daanje explores the strange power stories can have over those who create them and those who inherit them. Repeated images and patterns echo across generations, suggesting that literature may preserve truths that history cannot fully explain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in Dutch in 2022 and translated by David McKay, \u003cem\u003eThe Song of Stork and Dromedary\u003c\/em\u003e is an ambitious, recursive novel about literary obsession, sisterhood, death, artistic legacy, and the human desire to find meaning in an unknowable world. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnjet Daanje is a Dutch novelist, screenwriter, and translator whose work has received major literary recognition in the Netherlands and Belgium. Her fiction is known for its complex structures, psychological depth, and interest in memory, history, and the ways people construct stories around one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid McKay is an award-winning translator of Dutch fiction and nonfiction. He has lived in and around The Hague since 1997 and has translated several major works of Dutch and Flemish literature, including Daanje's \u003cem\u003eThe Remembered Soldier\u003c\/em\u003e and Stefan Hertmans's \u003cem\u003eWar and Turpentine\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003eFSG Originals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAugust 18, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrade Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e736\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubjects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiterary Fiction; Historical Fiction; Fiction in Translation; Dutch Literature; Gothic Fiction; Literary Mystery; Women Writers; Sisters; Art and Literature; Memory; Death; World Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9780374620615 \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Old Post Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45397569896630,"sku":"9780374620615","price":32.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0731\/2264\/4150\/files\/9780374620615.jpg?v=1788276013","url":"https:\/\/oldpostbookshop.com\/products\/the-song-of-stork-and-dromedary-a-novel","provider":"Old Post Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}