'What happens when a young woman travels the world with her lover and a dictionary? Her One Hundred and Seven Words is an exquisite prose poetry narrative about words, intimacy and touch: how we make often contradictory meanings through language; how other meanings are wordless, elusive and sometimes ineffable. This narrative delineates the contours of a relationship between a young woman who is still finding her identity and a man in his fifties. In doing so, it charts the sometimes- delicate intricacies of human affinity, attachment and disagreement in circumstances where desire is complicated by different world views and divergent assumptions. As it celebrates and quizzes human complexity, and playfully alludes to various well-known literary and cultural works, Her One Hundred and Seven Words poignantly maps various travails of human memory and connection, affectionately scrutinizing the mysteries attendant on love.' (Publication summary)
