--- product_id: 72950408 title: "Morvern Callar Paperback – 2 May 1996" brand: "alan warner" price: "NT$333" currency: TWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/72950408-morvern-callar-paperback-2-may-1996 store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # Morvern Callar Paperback – 2 May 1996 **Brand:** alan warner **Price:** NT$333 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Morvern Callar Paperback – 2 May 1996 by alan warner - **How much does it cost?** NT$333 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/72950408-morvern-callar-paperback-2-may-1996) ## Best For - alan warner enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted alan warner brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Morvern Callar Paperback – 2 May 1996 - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41OmXTc7OVL.jpg) ![Morvern Callar Paperback – 2 May 1996 - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cDnli8hxL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Haunting And Evocative *by K***M on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 February 2017* Scot Alan Warner’s 1995 debut novel really is quite unlike anything I can recall reading. Frequently rambling and discursive, but with a haunting, dream-like quality that is particularly memorable, Warner’s titular character wakes one day to find her boyfriend has committed suicide, an event that sets in train a fortuitous change in 21-year old Morvern’s seemingly otherwise mundane existence. Warner’s tale is a contemporary one, evoking the loneliness of life in a remote small town (here, based on the Highland coastal town of Oban, near to Warner’s 'home patch’), but also that of localised youth culture – here, 1990s rave culture, depicted via Morvern’s ever-present Walkman playlist and her subsequent holiday visits to the haunts of Spanish tourist resorts. Warner’s writing style is certainly an acquired taste, narrative-light and often repetitive, but getting to the heart (via his first-person narrative) of his lead character, whose sense of self-determination, independence and detachment from events going on around her, leads to Morvern assuming the mantle of a rather original literary creation. The novel’s submergence in rebellious, impetuous, hedonistic youth culture and its use of vernacular/slang called to my mind other original, diverse works such as The Catcher In The Rye, A Clockwork Orange and The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner and whilst Warner’s novel in not (for me) quite in this league, it is a highly original and evocative piece of writing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Denim electric *by B***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 January 2019* Absolutely loved this novel, it is edgy and has a vernacular spectacular, the narrative and narrator are one becoming undone. Particularly liked the café scenes, the night swim, to make the supermarket of former employment even ever more grim. In the end you are really pleased she had a chance to let her nails grow and flourish and for a while glow. But of course the tribute lay's to the writer who dreamed a world shady but brighter, a truly magnificent thing, a novel that captures the sorrow and lament of a life left because of financial constraint and so much more. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ There's no freedom, no liberty, there's just money. *by E***W on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 January 2011* Wholly original in both the manner of it's telling and showing as well as in the conception and development of the book itself, this adds to the oeuvre of Warner in no small degree. Previously I've read two of his books: he has written about a group of teenaged girls on a choir spree, (not the gangster series) title:  The Sopranos , and about an ageing Spanish roué in  The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven , and I fully intend to read his other books. This one stays mostly in Scotland with occasional forays to Spanish Rave heaven. It begins with a shocking death and carries on with actions that seem almost incapable of explanation.Throughout, Warner is consistent in his inconsistency, his grammar filched from some inner corner of his protagonist's understanding. Eg: "I slid my foot to the left. You felt the whole side of a face lay against my bare back, between shoulder blades. It was still part of our dance... You didn't really have your body as your own, it was part of the dance, the music, the rave." This kind of conjunction, slipping from first to second person, sometimes within one sentence is deliberate, to signify, perhaps, the autism of Morvern's reactions and feelings. Not that I mean these are pathological, or ascribable to some condition, but that it is how she feels habitually - she slides from herself to herself experienced as something outside of herself. This kind of slippage is by no means confined to Rave activities. It's effect is to charge the book with a kind of deliberate sense that Morvern is not like anyone else. Indeed, some of the early sections are almost hallucinatory in that they involve activities that would fit in perfectly in another kind of book altogether, but don't fit in with this one. It is a most extraordinary book. Towards it's end I was flagging under the continuation of affectless description. Eg: "I skinned the flesh from each olive with my two top front teeth so if you fished the olive out you could see the little square cuts on it. After I'd bitten off most of the flesh, my tongue passed the stone further back in my mouth where I rubbed the rest off. Then I sucked the stone with its sharp little ridge before popping it out on my hand and lining it up with the other stones." There is much more of this kind of thing than one could ever need. But what Warner has done with this galaxy of detail is capture perfectly the strangeness of Morvern Caller's perfectly ordinary, yet extraordinary, existence. It is a feat of determination and to be admired, at a distance, perhaps, like a long dream that you are certain holds meaning for you of an urgent, life-changing nature, if only you had its key. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to be challenged as s/he reads. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tw/products/72950408-morvern-callar-paperback-2-may-1996](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/72950408-morvern-callar-paperback-2-may-1996) --- *Product available on Desertcart Taiwan* *Store origin: TW* *Last updated: 2026-05-19*