THE VANISHING PRINCESS - my first book by Jenny Diski, and it remained one of my favourites. When two men "invent" cubism before it actually came into existance, when a girl commits suicide on a tube station and a passer-by suddenly finds herself in an affair with the girl's ex-lover, when someone is obsessed with bath rooms and a princess makes Rumpel Stiltz forget his name...you're into a Jenny-Diski-book. Her unique way of describing things from points of view you would maybe never have thought of is just amazing. And so is her humour...
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