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''One of the funniest, most finely achieved comic novels, even by her own standard - I think it-s a masterpiece.'' ALI SMITH
-I think Nicola Barker is incapable of a dull page. [Her work] is unified by its spirit of adventure.- KEVIN BARRY
How long does it take to change the world?
Could it happen in approximately twenty minutes?
Charles, a forty-year-old teddy bear maker, is trying to sell his late mother''s house, helped by his estate agent Avigail (who thinks Charles is an imbecile). The prospective buyers: the fearsome Wang Shu - who has no desire to make idle chit-chat - and her downtrodden daughter, Ying Yue.
During the twenty-minute viewing a huge number of things happen, although it is also entirely possible that nothing happens at all. Which is it? Can the world really turn on its axis during a mundane discussion about cheese preservation? Has fiction the power to
