Asunder - Chloe Aridjis

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Title
Asunder
Author
Chloe Aridjis
format
Hardback
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20130502
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Chloe Aridjis was born in New York, and grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico City. She received her DPhil in nineteenth-century French poetry and magic from Oxford, then lived in Berlin for five years. Her first novel, Book of Clouds, published in 2009, won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France. She lives in London.

"I loved Chloe Aridjis's Book of Clouds so it was exciting to read her new novel, Asunder, which, in a story about art, guardianship, damage and philosophy, revealed again the deftness and depth of narrative understanding of this subtle and courageous writer."
New Statesman - Ali Smith

"Exhilarating. The novel wonderfully disobeys all conventional rules of realism and plotting, of show-don't-tell. Powerful and artful, Asunder works like a poem, pulling us into a labyrinthine sequence of connected images. By the end, it seems like an abstract painting, apparently defying narrative time. This all makes for rapturous and enraptured reading."
Independent - Michele Roberts

"Strange, extravagant, darkly absorbing. This is a book about quietness and violence. There is a Nabokovian rhythm in Asunder's obsessive permutations, and in the novel's dance of fluttering life and slow decay. Her novel thrills with energy because of it."
Guardian - Alexandra Harris

"Chloe Aridjis is crafting a poetics of the strange. To describe her novels as inconsequential is not to deny them substance, but to highlight their shadowy randomness, their pearlescent impressionism and the way in which they work by hints and cross-references... this is deft and shimmering fiction."
Times Literary Supplement - Kate McLoughlin

"Aridjis has risen to the occasion with Asunder. Given that Asunder lacks a conventional plot, the fact that it is such an absorbing and moving book says much about Aridjis's skill as a writer. Her unusual imagery and lyrical style breathe life into this otherwise sombre story."
Financial Times

"[A] stunningly good second novel... Aridjis's intelligent prose makes this slight story into something dramatic and affecting, completely coherent and oddly irresistible. It is a brilliant book."
Publishers Weekly (US), starred review

"Aridjis's writing is refreshingly escapist... Moreover, the novel itself has escaped from the strait-jacket of convential narrative and plot. This leaves Asunder free to devote itself to mood and atmosphere, in which it is highly successful. Reading Asunder offers an unusually absorbing experience. It is also an unusually enjoyable one. "
Independent on Sunday - Peter Carty

"Asunder exists with an intensity stronger than that of most novels. Reading it is absorbing and enlarging to the imagination"
Diana Athill

"Set amidst the stillness of museums and the magic of indeterminate urban spaces, this is a subtly lyrical novel about the lasting seductions of art, the ubiquitous processes of decay -- and the surprising renewals that can come from these. Chloe Aridjis writes about sensations at the edges of perception, capturing experiences rarely included in fiction. A surprising sensibility and an effortlessly original voice"
Eva Hoffman

"Marie, the narrator of this charming novel, has the ideal job for someone who likes a quiet life. She's a guard at the National Gallery in London... but she's starting to long for change. In a story this elegant, it had to be Paris where her shell will be cracked."
Sunday Times

Type
BOOK
Edition
Hardback original
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
192

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