The Newlyweds - Softcover

Freudenberger, Nell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067092184X ISBN 13: 9780670921843

Verlag: Viking, 2012

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A wonderful, funny, inventive novel that takes you slowly by surprise the more you read. Its themes of self delusion, misplaced hope and the mystery that is true love stayed with me for a long time afterwards. Highly recommended. (Red (Book of the Month))

A powerful sense of empathy, of being able to imagine what it is to be soemone else, to feel what someone else feels (Mohsin Hamid)

This classic tale of missed chances, crushing errors of judgment, and scarring sacrifices, all compounded by cultural differences, is perfectly pitched, piercingly funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking (Booklist starred review)

Every minute I was away from this book I was longing to be back in the world she created (Ann Patchett, author of 'State of Wonder')

There is an incandescent talent at work here (The Times)

Wise, timely, ripe with humour and complexity, The Newlyweds is one of the most believable love stories of our young century (Gary Shteyngart, author of 'Super Sad True Love Story')

The intrigue and small disappointments of marriage are painstakingly captured. (Psychologies)

A Fresh and modern look at relationships, told with heart. (Elle)

A charming and serious tale of marriage, family and identity. Its prose style is intimate, almost conspiratorial... threading its arm around the reader confidently. The writing is clear and spare... yet Freudenberger's investigation into what makes relationships work... is complex and sophisticated... Freudenberger approaches her subject with great sensitivity, a heavy sense of the seriousness of life - and much wry humour. (Independent on Sunday)

There are some piercing cultural observations... the chapters zip along with purpose and the novel flits effortlessly between the false intimacy of suburban America and the closely knit gossipy communities of Dhaka (Independent)

Reseña del editor:

From Nell Freudenberger, one of America's most dazzling talents, comes The Newlyweds, an utterly captivating cross-continental love story

Amina Mazid is twenty-four when she leaves Bangladesh for Rochester, New York, and for George Stillman, the husband who met and wooed her online. It's a twenty-first-century romance that echoes ancient traditions - the arranged marriages of her home country. And though George falls for Amina because she doesn't 'play games', they will both hide a secret, and vital, part of their lives from each other.

A brilliantly observed, wry and yet deeply moving novel about the exhilerations - and complications - of getting, and staying, wed. Reminiscent of Anne Tyler, Curtis Sittenfeld's The American Wife and Jennifer Egan, The Newlyweds is a tour de force - a novel as rich with misunderstandings as it is with unlikely connections.

'Every minute I was away from this book I was longing to be back in the world she created', Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder

'A marvellous book', Kiran Desai, winner of the MAN Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss

Nell Freudenberger is the author of the novel The Dissident, (longlisted for the Orange Prize) and the story collection Lucky Girls, winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and shortlisted for the Orange New Writers' Prize and a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. She was named a New Yorker '20 Under 40' writer and one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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• Verlag: Viking
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 067092184X
• ISBN 13: 9780670921843
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352