Asymmetry
Published on 1. March 2018
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-78378-360-1 (ISBN)
Description
'I loved, admired and envied this novel, it's a wonder' Zadie Smith
'A scorchingly intelligent first novel' New York Times.
'Spellbinding' New Yorker
'Thrilling' Guardian
In 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.
'A scorchingly intelligent first novel' New York Times.
'Spellbinding' New Yorker
'Thrilling' Guardian
In 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78378-360-1 (9781783783601)
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Person
Lisa Halliday has worked as a freelance editor and translator in Milan, where she lives with her husband. Her short story 'Stump Louie' appeared in The Paris Review in 2005, and she received a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2017. Asymmetry is her first novel.