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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Blind goes barefoot very often (perhaps it helps him to navigate, since [[CaptainObvious he is, you know, blind]]).
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* {{Weredragon}}: [[spoiler: Alexander]] turns out to be one.
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* {{Weredragon}}: [[spoiler: Alexander]] turns out to be one.one.
* WorldOfMysteries: A number of the House's tenants are able to visit the Underside of the House, a parallel world which is literally the World of Mysteries: a surreal, Kafkaesque realm host to all sorts of fairytale/[[MagicalRealism Magical Realist]] and detective/thriller plots, with multiple references to the pop culture of the 1990s. Because of their superstitions students usually do not discuss in detail what happened to them in the Underside, only giving some subtle hints, which makes it even more mysterious.
* WorldOfMysteries: A number of the House's tenants are able to visit the Underside of the House, a parallel world which is literally the World of Mysteries: a surreal, Kafkaesque realm host to all sorts of fairytale/[[MagicalRealism Magical Realist]] and detective/thriller plots, with multiple references to the pop culture of the 1990s. Because of their superstitions students usually do not discuss in detail what happened to them in the Underside, only giving some subtle hints, which makes it even more mysterious.
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trope was renamed to Diagnosed By The Audience, but the description is a generic example and thus is misuse
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Many House inhabitants have unnamed physical or mental handicaps.
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* EnchantedForest: The Forest is a mysterious parallel world that some of the House's inhabitants can visit. It has mysterious creatures like dogheads and whistlers, giant blackcap mushrooms and bloodsucking flowers, and a lot of other weird things.
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* TheLostWoods: The Forest, a mysterious parallel world that some of the House's inhabitants can visit. It has mysterious creatures like dogheads and whistlers, giant blackcap mushrooms and bloodsucking flowers, and a lot of other weird things.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Blind goes barefoot a lot.
* FalseProtagonist: Smoker; the first Book is told almost entirely from his perspective; however, in Books 2 and 3 he gives way to other narrators.
* FalseProtagonist: Smoker; the first Book is told almost entirely from his perspective; however, in Books 2 and 3 he gives way to other narrators.
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* ArtificialLimbs: Grasshopper/Sphinx, who was born without arms, gains a pair of those.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Blind goes barefoota lot.
very often (perhaps it helps him to navigate, since [[CaptainObvious he is, you know, blind]]).
* FalseProtagonist:Smoker; Smoker: the first Book is told almost entirely from his perspective; however, perspective, but in Books 2 and 3 he gives way to other narrators.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Blind goes barefoot
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->''"The Gray House is enigmatic and fantastical, comic and postmodern… [[Creator/JKRowling Rowling]] meets [[Creator/SalmanRushdie Rushdie]] via [[Creator/DonnaTartt Tartt]]… Nothing short of life-changing"''
-->-- ''[[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/13/the-gray-house-by-mariam-petrosyan-review The Guardian]]''
The Gray House is a Russian postmodern/[[MagicalRealism magical realist]] novel, written by Mariam Petrosyan in the [[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia Russian Nineties]]. It was published in Russian in 2009, and translated to English in 2017.
The novel is set in a specialized boarding school for children and teenagers with disabilities. The time and place are deliberately obscured: one can deduce that it takes place somewhere in the late 80s-early 90s in a FictionalCountry which looks like a mish-mash of post-Soviet Russia, Western Europe, and United States. It starts as a more-or-less realistic drama story about Smoker, a paraplegic teenage tenant of the House who struggles to adapt in a new group of students. Initially, he feels like he is the OnlySaneMan: his groupmates are obsessed with seemingly childish traditions and "rituals" of the House, they invent strange fairytales and indulge in bizarre fantasies. However, it turns out that these "fantasies" are not fantasies at all, that the House contains many mystical (and often dark) secrets, and each of the students has their own skeleton in the closet. [[MindScrew Things only get weirder from there...]]
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!! This novel provides examples of:
* AmbiguousDisorder: Many House inhabitants have unnamed physical or mental handicaps.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Blind goes barefoot a lot.
* FalseProtagonist: Smoker; the first Book is told almost entirely from his perspective; however, in Books 2 and 3 he gives way to other narrators.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: All the inhabitants of the House; however, Smoker's real name is revealed at one point (it is Eric Zimmerman).
* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler: As it turns out at the end, Tabaqui is living in an eternal time loop from childhood to late adolescence, so while he always looks like a kid or a teen, he's actually ''very'' old.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: The inhabitants of the House publish their own magazine, called Blume, with Tabaqui as chief editor.
* TheLostWoods: The Forest, a mysterious parallel world that some of the House's inhabitants can visit. It has mysterious creatures like dogheads and whistlers, giant blackcap mushrooms and bloodsucking flowers, and a lot of other weird things.
* TheTrickster: Tabaqui the Jackal.
* {{Weredragon}}: [[spoiler: Alexander]] turns out to be one.
->''"The Gray House is enigmatic and fantastical, comic and postmodern… [[Creator/JKRowling Rowling]] meets [[Creator/SalmanRushdie Rushdie]] via [[Creator/DonnaTartt Tartt]]… Nothing short of life-changing"''
-->-- ''[[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/13/the-gray-house-by-mariam-petrosyan-review The Guardian]]''
The Gray House is a Russian postmodern/[[MagicalRealism magical realist]] novel, written by Mariam Petrosyan in the [[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia Russian Nineties]]. It was published in Russian in 2009, and translated to English in 2017.
The novel is set in a specialized boarding school for children and teenagers with disabilities. The time and place are deliberately obscured: one can deduce that it takes place somewhere in the late 80s-early 90s in a FictionalCountry which looks like a mish-mash of post-Soviet Russia, Western Europe, and United States. It starts as a more-or-less realistic drama story about Smoker, a paraplegic teenage tenant of the House who struggles to adapt in a new group of students. Initially, he feels like he is the OnlySaneMan: his groupmates are obsessed with seemingly childish traditions and "rituals" of the House, they invent strange fairytales and indulge in bizarre fantasies. However, it turns out that these "fantasies" are not fantasies at all, that the House contains many mystical (and often dark) secrets, and each of the students has their own skeleton in the closet. [[MindScrew Things only get weirder from there...]]
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!! This novel provides examples of:
* AmbiguousDisorder: Many House inhabitants have unnamed physical or mental handicaps.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Blind goes barefoot a lot.
* FalseProtagonist: Smoker; the first Book is told almost entirely from his perspective; however, in Books 2 and 3 he gives way to other narrators.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: All the inhabitants of the House; however, Smoker's real name is revealed at one point (it is Eric Zimmerman).
* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler: As it turns out at the end, Tabaqui is living in an eternal time loop from childhood to late adolescence, so while he always looks like a kid or a teen, he's actually ''very'' old.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: The inhabitants of the House publish their own magazine, called Blume, with Tabaqui as chief editor.
* TheLostWoods: The Forest, a mysterious parallel world that some of the House's inhabitants can visit. It has mysterious creatures like dogheads and whistlers, giant blackcap mushrooms and bloodsucking flowers, and a lot of other weird things.
* TheTrickster: Tabaqui the Jackal.
* {{Weredragon}}: [[spoiler: Alexander]] turns out to be one.
