The Swimmers

Julie Otsuka

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From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the Attic

Up above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, record-breaking summers of unendurable heat, but down below, at the pool, it is always a comfortable eighty-one degrees ...

Alice is one of a group of obsessed recreational swimmers for whom their local swimming pool has become the centre of their lives - a place of unexpected kinship, freedom, and ritual. Until one day a crack appears beneath its surface ...

As cracks also begin to appear in Alice's memory, her husband and daughter are faced with the dilemma of how best to care for her. As Alice clings to the tethers of her past in a Home she feels certain is not her home, her daughter must navigate the newly fractured landscape of their relationship.

A novel about mothers and daughters, grief and memory, love and implacable loss, The Swimmers is spellbinding, incantatory and unforgettable. The finest work yet from a true modern master.

Review

'An unforgettable novel about mothers and daughters by a spellbinding talent' Daily Mail

'Stylistically ambitious and deeply moving' Kirkus Reviews

'A goddamn heartbreaker' Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers

A story of memory loss and its fallout for family, and of the power of pool friendship. Glittering and tender. ― Sainsbury's Magazine

As a regular and sedate swimmer, I loved this novel...A quiet and thoughtful story about the small, steady joys of life and how quickly and irrevocably they can become disrupted. ― Red Magazine

A story about mothers and daughters, love and loss, it will make you reconsider what's truly important in life ― Kintsugi Magazine

Haunting, ironic and poetic in its resonance, this slender volume is a must-read...Don't miss this beautifully written, heartfelt, wry and wistful exploration of loss. ― Woman & Home

With shrewd characterisation and original observations, Otsuka tells a tale of grief and memory that's quietly observed yet awash with dark humour and wit. ― Spectator

Amid an incantatory litany of totalising losses, there are snapshots of a unique life with all its complications. Superbly realised and incredibly moving ― Daily Mail

Haunting, ironic and poetic in its resonance, this slender volume is a must-read ― Woman's Weekly

What makes a good life? What is a good death? The answers to these questions shimmer elusively just below the surface of The Swimmers ― Stylist

Otsuka's slender, stylistically ambitious third novel is a marvel, capturing the hypnotic rhythm of lane-swimming and the devastating decline of memory and connection as dementia takes hold...Heartbreakingly powerful ― Mail on Sunday, Best New Fiction

About the Author

Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She pursued a career as a painter for several years before turning to fiction writing at age 30. Her first two novels When the Emperor Was Divine (nominated for the Women's Prize) and The Buddha in the Attic were internationally celebrated. She is a recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Asian American Literary Award, France's Prix Femina Étranger and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She now lives in New York City.

Podrobnosti

Autor	Julie Otsuka
Vydavatel	Fig Tree
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	pevná
Počet stran	192
Formát	13,8 × 20,4 cm
EAN	9780241543887
Rok vydání	2022
Edice	Současná beletrie Vztahy, romantika, rodina