The Shadow of the Object'One of our boldest writers' Deborah Levy A magnificent work of shadow play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis and mortality. Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia and meets Wilhelmina, an elderly German woman with pneumonia, who collects pre cinema toys and instruments. The two of them embark on a series of dream like