Sympathy
Olivia Sudjic
An electrifying debut novel of obsessive love, family secrets, and the dangers of living our lives online At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, a Japanese writer living in New York, whose life story has strange parallels to her own and whom she believes is her "internet twin." What seems to Mizuko like a chance encounter with Alice is anything but--after all, in the age of connectivity, nothing is coincidence.
Their subsequent relationship is doomed from the outset, exposing a tangle of lies and sexual encounters as three families across the globe collide, and the most ancient of questions--where do we come from--is answered just by searching online. In its heady evocation of everything from Haruki Murakami to Patricia Highsmith to Edith Wharton, Sympathy is utterly original--a thrilling tale of obsession, doubling, blood ties, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age.
Their subsequent relationship is doomed from the outset, exposing a tangle of lies and sexual encounters as three families across the globe collide, and the most ancient of questions--where do we come from--is answered just by searching online. In its heady evocation of everything from Haruki Murakami to Patricia Highsmith to Edith Wharton, Sympathy is utterly original--a thrilling tale of obsession, doubling, blood ties, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age.
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Année:
2017
Edition:
First Edition
Editeur::
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Langue:
english
Pages:
416
ISBN 10:
0544836626
ISBN 13:
9780544836624
Fichier:
EPUB, 1.00 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2017