'A scorchingly intelligent first novel' New York Times'Spellbinding' New Yorker'Thrilling' GuardianIn New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life.

Autorentext

Lisa Halliday has lived in Italy since 2011. Her first novel, Asymmetry, was published in twenty languages, and was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. She received a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2017.

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In this distinctive and original debut, the two strands follow a young woman's New York-based affair with a famous, older writer, and an Iraqi-American economist's detainment on the way to Kurdistan. A sense of contemporaneity comparable to Ben Lerner and Rachel Cusk.