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Sympathy
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Artikel-Nr:
9780993506260
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
26.04.2018
Seiten:
416
Autor:
Olivia Sudjic
Gewicht:
346 g
Format:
198x128x32 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Olivia Sudjic was born in London in 1988. She studied English Literature at Cambridge University where she was awarded the E.G. Harwood English Prize and made a Bateman Scholar. She started writing her first novel, Sympathy, in 2014.
An electrifying novel of blood ties, online identities, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age.At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She falls in love with Manhattan, and becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, an intriguing Japanese writer whose life has strange parallels to her own.As Alice closes in on Mizuko, her 'internet twin', realities multiply and fact and fiction begin to blur. The relationship between the two women exposes a tangle of lies and sexual encounters. Three families collide as Alice learns that the swiftest answer to an ancient question - where do we come from? - can now be found online.
Alice becomes fixated on a writer whose life has parallels with her own. As fact and fiction begin to blur, the relationship between the women exposes lies and sexual encounters. Three families collide as Alice learns that the swiftest answer to the question where do we come from? can be found online. This first great Instagram novel is an astute take on efforts to connect in the digital age.