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Disquiet

Disquiet

by JuliaLeigh (Author)

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    Hardcover 2008

    $10.68
Synopsis

Accompanied by two young children, Olivia has left a violent marriage and returned to her childhood home, an austere chateau surrounded by formal gardens. She considers herself to be already 'murdered', dead before dying. At the same time as this unannounced homecoming another couple are expected at the chateau: her brother Marcus and his wife Sophie are due back from the hospital with their newborn. In this brittle world of emotional control, everyone tries to hold themselves together as a tragic secret pushes them towards breaking point...A darkly mesmerising tale, "Disquiet" is disturbing, atmospheric, subtle and quite brilliant.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 128
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 01 May 2008
ISBN 10: 0571239994
ISBN 13: 9780571239993
Book Overview: Julia Leigh's Disquiet is a shocking tale of the unexpected from a hugely acclaimed literary author.

Media Reviews
aA powerful and disquieting novella, a work of fiction so infused with the practices of film that, while each scene is fully and even vividly realized in words, it also translates quite naturally into film, into a visually rich action taking place before the inner eye.a
aJ. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace
aThis is a writer with terrifying control of the dreamscape. And, yes, those are the ones to watch out for.a
a The Los Angeles Times
aIan McEwanas Atonement comes to mindabut Leigh has a hypnotic power all her own.a
a People
aHypnotica]Leigh sustains the tension between life and death until the very end. It's difficult to imagine a reader who will not be electrified by this haunting, masterfully told story. Indeed, it's difficult to imagine a reader who will not be changed by it.a
a Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
aArtfully fulfilling the promise a or threat a of its title, the tale exudes a chill moonlight beauty, a tribute to the finesse of its author, Julia Leigh.a
a The Boston Globe
a[Leighas] mentor was the Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, and this gothic little book is the result of that pairing.a
a NY Times
A powerful and disquieting novella, a work of fiction so infused with the practices of film that, while each scene is fully and even vividly realized in words, it also translates quite naturally into film, into a visually rich action taking place before the inner eye.
J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace
This is a writer with terrifying control of the dreamscape. And, yes, those are the ones to watch out for.
The Los Angeles Times
Ian McEwan s Atonement comes to mind but Leigh has a hypnotic power all her own.
People
Hypnotic Leigh sustains the tension between life and death until the very end. It's difficult to imagine a reader who will not be electrified by this haunting, masterfully told story. Indeed, it's difficult to imagine a reader who will not be changed by it.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Artfully fulfilling the promise or threat of its title, the tale exudes a chill moonlight beauty, a tribute to the finesse
?A powerful and disquieting novella, a work of fiction so infused with the practices of film that, while each scene is fully and even vividly realized in words, it also translates quite naturally into film, into a visually rich action taking place before the inner eye.?
?J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace
?This is a writer with terrifying control of the dreamscape. And, yes, those are the ones to watch out for.?
? The Los Angeles Times
?Ian McEwan's Atonement comes to mind?but Leigh has a hypnotic power all her own.?
? People
?Hypnotic?Leigh sustains the tension between life and death until the very end. It's difficult to imagine a reader who will not be electrified by this haunting, masterfully told story. Indeed, it's difficult to imagine a reader who will not be changed by it.?
? Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
?Artfully fulfilling the promise ? or threat ? of its title, the tale exudes a chill moonlight beaut
Author Bio
Julia Leigh was born in Sydney in 1970. She studied Arts/Law at the University of Sydney. The Hunter, her debut novel, has been published around the world and has won numerous awards, including a Betty Trask Award and the 2001 Prix de l'Astrolabe. It was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, longlisted for a US National Book Critics' Circle Award and was a finalist for the Meilleur Livre Etranger. Julia Leigh was chosen by the Observer as one of twenty-one writers to watch in the millennium, and the New York Times selected her book as a 'Notable Book of the Year'. Leigh currently resides in Princeton, Massachusetts.