Atticus Lish

Preparation for the Next Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A BEST BOOK OF 2014: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed • SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Brad Skinner hitchhikes to New York, newly returned from three tours in Iraq, hoping to exorcise his demons and reacclimate to American society. Zou Lei, an undocumented immigrant from Central Asia, catches a bus into the city, searching for a way to get by—or at least stay out of jail. Skinner and Zou Lei meet each other in the margins of Queens, each finding something they long for in the other, and their unlikely love story becomes the beating heart of this story. Set in the underbelly of New York, Preparation for the Next Life exposes an America as seen from the fringes of society and, in devastating detail, destroys the myth of the American Dream through two of the most remarkable characters in contemporary fiction. Powerful, realistic and raw, Preparation for the Next Life is one of the most ambitious—and necessary—novels of our time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 132mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9798217008179
• Artikelnr.: 73490420

Autorenporträt

ATTICUS LISH is the author of The War for Gloria and Preparation for the Next Life, which won the 2015 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2016 Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. He lives in California.

Rezensionen

'Extraordinary, challenging and...thrilling...So simple, so heartbreaking, so very, very good'.
Independent