Switzy
By (author) Cline Emma
24,86 $
Alternative format 9781784746650
Expédié entre 4 et 6 semaines
By (author) Cline Emma
Description:
Review quote:
Cline can always be counted on to deliver a sharp portrait of an uneasy mind... incisive, empathetic, and searing
Review quote:
Cline’s most ambitious novel yet… a book about consciousness, memory, and the strange, pressurised intimacy of a life you know is nearly over… Darkly funny, formally hypnotic, and profoundly moving, it is already one of the most anticipated novels of the second half of the year
Biographical note:
Emma Cline is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy and The Guest. Cline''s stories have been published in the New Yorker, Granta, the Paris Review and Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from the Paris Review and was chosen as one of Granta''s Best Young American Novelists.
Description:
''Sublime... completely gripping... a wonder'' MARK HADDON
''Her best book yet. Completely extraordinary'' DAISY JOHNSON
‘A real feat... the writing really, really pops'' JEM CALDER
*A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK 2026: BBC, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, Bookstr, Glossary, Paper Trails*
A mesmerising portrait of an ageing man’s last pilgrimage, from the bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest
A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone. Click. Click. Drag. Click. In his pocket is a notebook filled with urgent reminders — but he can no longer read his own handwriting.
He’s travelling with his assistant. There will be a stopover in London, dinner with his adult daughter, a meeting in France with an old friend. His final destination: a clinic in Zurich.
As David glides through hotel rooms, airports and foreign cities, his grasp on the present slips away and the past rushes in.
With David’s arrival in Zurich looming, an exquisitely rendered portrait of an unravelling mind emerges. Hypnotic and moving, Switzy probes the depths of human consciousness, revealing what a man is left with when the accomplishments and compromises that have defined him, and the illusions he''s relied on, vanish.
Review quote:
Cline can always be counted on to deliver a sharp portrait of an uneasy mind... incisive, empathetic, and searing
Review quote:
Cline’s most ambitious novel yet… a book about consciousness, memory, and the strange, pressurised intimacy of a life you know is nearly over… Darkly funny, formally hypnotic, and profoundly moving, it is already one of the most anticipated novels of the second half of the year
Biographical note:
Emma Cline is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Girls, the story collection Daddy and The Guest. Cline''s stories have been published in the New Yorker, Granta, the Paris Review and Best American Short Stories. She received the Plimpton Prize from the Paris Review and was chosen as one of Granta''s Best Young American Novelists.
