num_pages: 215
description: To a small flat in South London comes a Sumerian bowl: but the bowl is the Collector Collector, clay with something to say, an object d'art who will offer Rosa, its owner, vast swathes of unrecorded history from the last 5, 000 years. Meanwhile, Rosa tries to centre her life and settle the disturbances caused by an uninvited guest, Nikki.1001 Nights meets the inner city, The Collector Collector is a comic masterpiece and unquestionably the finest novel ever narrated by a bowl.
language: English
title: The Collector Collector
titlecomplete: The Collector Collector
genres: British Literature, 20th Century, Magical Realism, Humor, Contemporary, Modern, Fantasy, Novels, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 992
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random