
Indelible
Adelia Saunders(Author)
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Publisher)
Published on 1. March 2017
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Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-63286-999-9 (ISBN)
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Description
Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written on their skin--names, dates, details both banal and profound--and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully, her own skin is blank.
Reviews / Votes
Richly detailed and highly observant . . . Fans of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Tea Obreht's The Tiger's Wife will love Saunders' debut, which takes up the mantle of myth, history, and storytelling with beautiful, sure-footed prose. * Kirkus Reviews * Intricately plotted, complexly affecting. * Booklist * A graceful and elegant novel about love and mystery, loss and melancholy, sorrow and hope. From words written on the skin to the sight of unbearable things, Saunders explores with great nuance the limits of human vision. -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE SYMPATHIZER Extraordinary. Saunders' debut is grounded in such a solid world of character and place that its uncanny premise seems the most natural way to set right the missed connections of three wounded people. -- Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and author of FLORA A twisty gem of a book. Eloquently written, equal parts brutal and tender, Indelible is haunting in the very best way. -- Erika Swyler, author of THE BOOK OF SPECULATION A tapestry of human fates so vivid and unusual it will leave you wondering madly what words may be written across your own skin. -- Rebecca Dinerstein, author of THE SUNLIT NIGHT A history, a romance, a fantastic mystery-all of these descriptors could be applied to Indelible, and all of them are true. Transporting, unique, and entirely engrossing, it leaves a beautiful mark. -- Kate Racculia, author of BELLWEATHER RHAPSODY Each scene in Indelible is a vivid postcard as ineffaceable as its title. Readers will stay up late at night turning pages, trying to riddle out the mystery of these characters' intertwined lives. Expertly plotted, beautifully written! -- Suzanne Rindell, author of THREE-MARTINI LUNCHMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63286-999-9 (9781632869999)
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Adelia Saunders has a master's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a bachelor's degree from NYU. She has taught English in Paris, written for an independent newswire at the United Nations, and assisted an agricultural economist in Uganda. She grew up in Durango, Colorado, and currently lives with her husband and two small children in New York City, where she works for an international think tank. This is her first novel.