A Separation
Riverhead Books (Verlag)
9780735216655 (ISBN)
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A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club Pick
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Refinery29, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, NYLON, BookRiot.
"Kitamura's prose gallops, combining Elena Ferrante-style intricacies with the tensions of a top-notch whodunit." -Elle
This is her story. About the end of her marriage. About what happened when Christopher went missing and she went to find him. These are her secrets, this is what happened...
A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go look for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. As her search comes to a shocking breaking point, she discovers she understands less than she thought she did about her relationship and the man she used to love.
A searing, suspenseful story of intimacy and infidelity, A Separation lays bare what divides us from the inner lives of others. With exquisitely cool precision, Katie Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on edge, with a fiercely mesmerizing story to tell.
Katie Kitamura is a critic and novelist living in New York City. She is the author of Gone to the Forest and The Longshot, both of which were finalists for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. A recipient of a Lannan Residency Fellowship, Kitamura has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, BOMB, Triple Canopy, and is a regular contributor to Frieze.
"Kitamura is a writer with a visionary, visual imagination... In A Separation, [she] has made consciousness her territory. The book is all mind, and an observant, taut, astringent mind it is." -The New Yorker
"A slow burn of a novel that gathers its great force and intensity through careful observation and a refusal to accept old, shopworn narratives of love and loss." -Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation
"Thrilling." -New York Magazine
"Fascinating, artful and atmospheric." -Paula McLain, Parade magazine
"Unsettling... Kitamura traces the narrator's thoughts in sentences striking for their control and lucidity, their calm surface belied by the instability lurking beneath... The more the narrator tells us, the less we trust her. And the less we trust her, the more this hypnotic novel compels us to confront the limits of what we, too, can know." -O, the Oprah Magazine
"A novel so seamless, that follows its path with such consequence, that even minor deviations seem loaded with meaning. Wonderful." -Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle
"Accomplished... a coolly unsettling work." -New York Times Book Review
"Kitamura's prose gallops, combining Elena Ferrante-style intricacies with the tensions of a top-notch whodunit." -Elle
"Kitamura weaves a novel of quiet power, mostly due to a narrative voice that is so subtly commanding-so effortlessly self-aware and perceptive, teeming with dry yet empathetic humor-that it's a challenge not to follow her journey in a single sitting." -Harper's Bazaar
"Katie Kitamura breathes new life into the theme of marital breakdown." -The New Republic
"[A]n atmospheric and emotionally sophisticated novel that reads like a taut Patricia Highsmith thriller." -BBC
"The burnt landscape, the disappearance of a man, the brilliantly cold, precise, and yet threatening, churning tone of the narrator-make A Separation an absolutely mesmerizing work of art." -Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers
"Katie Kitamura is a visionary.... A Separation is a poised literary thriller on the outside and an investigation of interiority and the faulty narratives we assign to the world on the inside." -LitHub
"A Separation looks poised to be the literary Gone Girl of 2017." -The Millions
"A Separation displays Kitamura's stylistic control once again.... Violence of all kinds, not just against other bodies but against other minds, remains Kitamura's quarry. 'A Separation' proves that few stalk such game more patiently or more powerfully." -San Francisco Chronicle
"Unnerving... taut with quiet suspense.... It is wonderful to read a book that respects its readers in this way; Kitamura allows our imaginations to do much of the work." -NPR
"[A] slow-burn psychological novel, which rakes the embers of betrayal to find grief smoldering underneath... An absorbing tale." -Boston Globe
"This novel has everything I love in a book: love, loss, a journey, and stunning writing." -Martha Stewart
"Spell-binding" -Real Simple
"Prepare to feel, well, everything - this is a raw look at an emotionally charged life event." -Marie Claire
"A contemplative and lyrical narrative... A Separation will transfix you as powerfully as the Mediterranean vistas that are its backdrop." -Harper's Bazaar (The Best New Books of 2017, So Far)
"Stylistically ambitious and psychologically rich... A Separation is a work of great intensity and originality... There are deft meditations on the art of translation and the ritual of mourning, and sharp insight into what binds and divides lovers.... This is the book that elevates Kitamura to a different league." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Profound and gripping. I had that rare sense of feeling like I was in a creation specifically made out of words, that couldn't have been made out of any other substance. Kitamura combines the calm complexity of Joseph Conrad with the pacing and reveal of Patricia Highsmith. This novel is a wonder and a ple
1.
It began with a telephone call from Isabella. She wanted to know where Christopher was, and I was put in the awkward position of having to tell her that I didn't know. To her this must have sounded incredible. I didn't tell her that Christopher and I had separated six months earlier, and that I hadn't spoken to her son in nearly a month.
She found my inability to inform her of -Christopher's whereabouts incomprehensible, and her response was withering but not entirely surprised, which somehow made matters worse. I felt both humiliated and uncomfortable, two sensations that have always characterized my relationship with Isabella and Mark. This despite Christopher often telling me I had precisely the same effect on them, that I should try not to be so reserved, it was too easily interpreted as a form of arrogance.
Didn't I know, he asked, that some people found me a snob? I didn't. Our marriage was formed by the things Christopher knew and the things I did not. This was not simply a question of intellect, although in that respect Christopher again had the advantage, he was without doubt a clever man. It was a question of things withheld, information that he had, and that I did not. In short, it was a question of infidelities-betrayal always puts one partner in the position of knowing, and leaves the other in the dark.
Although betrayal was not even, not necessarily, the primary reason for the failure of our marriage. It happened slowly, even once we had agreed to separate, there were practicalities, it was no small thing, dismantling the edifice of a marriage. The prospect was so daunting that I began wondering whether one or the other of us was having second thoughts, if there was hesitation buried deep within the bureaucracy, secreted in the piles of paper and online forms which we were so keen to avoid.
And so it was entirely reasonable of Isabella to call me and ask what had become of Christopher. I've left three messages, she said, his mobile goes directly to voice mail, and the last time I rang it was a foreign ringtone-
She pronounced the word foreign with a familiar blend of suspicion, mystification (she could not imagine any reason why her only son would wish to remove himself from her vicinity) and pique. The words returned to me then, phrases spoken over the course of the marriage: you're foreign, you've always been a little foreign, she's very nice but different to us, we don't feel as if we know you (and then, finally, what she would surely say if Christopher told her that it was over between us), it's for the best, darling, in the end she was never really one of us.
-therefore, I would like to know, where exactly is my son?
Immediately, my head began to throb. It had been a month since I had spoken to Christopher. Our last conversation had been on the telephone. Christopher had said that although we were clearly not going to be reconciled, he did not want to begin the process-he used that word, indicative of some continuous and ongoing thing, rather than a decisive and -singular act and of course he was right, divorce was more organic, somehow more contingent than it initially appeared-of telling people.
Could we keep it between us? I had hesitated, it wasn't that I disagreed with the sentiment-the decision was still new at that point, and I imagined Christopher felt much as I did, that we had not yet figured out how to tell the story of our separation. But I disliked the air of complicity, which felt incongruous and without purpose. Regardless, I said yes. Christopher, hearing the hesitation in my voice, asked me to promise. Promise that you won't tell anyone, at least for the time being, not until we speak again. Irritated, I agreed, and then hung up.
That was the last time we spoke. Now, when I insisted that I did not know where Christopher was, Isabella gave a short laugh before saying, Don't be ridiculous. I spoke t
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.02.2017 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 231 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur |
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| ISBN-13 | 9780735216655 / 9780735216655 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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