Asymmetry

Asymmetry

by Lisa Halliday (Author), Lisa Halliday (Author)

Synopsis

'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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd
Published: 01 Mar 2018

ISBN 10: 1783783605
ISBN 13: 9781783783601
Book Overview: A provocative next chapter in 'The Great American Novel' , from a major new international writer of rare and extraordinary talent

Author Bio
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.