Wigrum

Daniel Canty

"It's October 1944. During a moment of calm in the bombing of London, Sebastian Wigrum absconds from his small flat and disappears into the fog. This is our first, and last, encounter with the enigmatic man we come to know through some one hundred everyday objects he has left behind. Exploring Wigrum's meticulously catalogued collection artefact by artefact, readers become immersed in a dreamlike narrative bricolage that is determined as much by the objects' museological presentation as by the collector's intense, and idiosyncratic, curiosity about the world"--Back cover.