LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

With an introduction by Megan Nolan

'Siri Hustvedt's most ambitious, most rewarding novel. It mesmerises, arouses, disturbs'
**Salman Rushdie

'Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling'
Sunday Times**

'A big, wide, sensuous novel - clever, sinister, yet attractively real'
Guardian

In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Wechsler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship.

This is the story of their intense and troubled relationship, of the women in their lives and their work, of art and hysteria, love and seduction and their sons - born the same year but whose lives take very different paths.

PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:

'One of our finest novelists'
Oliver Sacks

'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch'
Financial Times

'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt'
Washington Post

a powerful novel of love, loss and longing, exquisitely written

Vorwort
The international phenomenon by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved writers, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

Autorentext
Siri Hustvedt is the author of seven novels, five collections of essays, a poetry collection and a memoir. Her books have been listed for major prizes, including the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize and the PEN America Literary Award. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and has been awarded honorary PhDs from Johannes Gutenberg University, Stendhal University and the University of Oslo. She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and has written on art for the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph. Born in Minnesota, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Klappentext

Third novel from the author of "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" and "The Blindfold". 10,000 hardbacks sold within a month of publication. Orange Prize longlisted. "Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling" "Sunday Times".