Swimming Home. Heim schwimmen, englische Ausgabe

Tom McCarthy, geboren 1969, lebt als Künstler, Schriftsteller und Literaturkritiker in London. Er ist Generalsekretär der International Necronautical Society und hat zahlreiche Erzählungen und Essays veröffentlicht.
Deborah Levy, 1959 in Südafrika geboren, lebt als Autorin in London. Nach einigen Prosaarbeiten schrieb sie vor allem Drehbücher und Theaterstücke, die unter anderem von der Royal Shakespeare Company aufgeführt wurden.

A taut, cinematic novel from an acclaimed author. Joe arrives at his family villa in Nice to find a naked girl in the swimming pool, a self-proclaimed botanist who changes his life. With an introduction by Tom McCarthy, it will be supported by a major reviews and media coverage. 'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression.' Jeanette Winterson

Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people. Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams. Deborah Levy's writing combines linguistic virtuosity, technical brilliance and a strong sense of what it means to be alive. "Swimming Home" represents a new direction for a major writer. In this book, the wildness and the danger are all the more powerful for resting just beneath the surface. With its deep psychology, biting humour and deceptively light surface, it wears its darkness lightly.