Anne Korkeakivi

An Unexpected Guest

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Like Virginia Woolf did in "Mrs. Dalloway, " Korkeakivi brilliantly weaves the complexities of an age into an act as deceptively simple as hosting a dinner party.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780316249980
• ISBN-10: 031624998X
• Artikelnr.: 36964665

Autorenporträt

Anne Korkeakivi is the author of the novel An Unexpected Guest. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications in the United States and Britain, including The Yale Review and The Atlantic, and she is a Hawthornden Fellow. Born and raised in New York City, she has lived in France and Finland, and currently resides in Geneva, Switzerland, where her husband is a human rights lawyer with the United Nations. They have two daughters.

Rezensionen

"Anne Korkeakivi's writing has all the best qualities of an Ishiguro novel. Clare, a seemingly selfless diplomat's wife, the epitome of restraint and hermetic detachment, unravels before us into a woman of dangerous allegiances, passions, and moral dilemmas, in prose that is both beautiful and razor sharp. Paris is depicted with subtle complexity, a city that reposes as it threatens, full of scorn and grace. Korkeakivi's sense of detail is remarkable while grounded in authenticity. An Unexpected Guest is a feast of a novel."
-George Hagen, author of The Laments