The Sorrows Of An American\Die Leiden eines Amerikaners, englische Ausgabe - Hustvedt, Siri
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The dazzling new novel by the author of the international bestseller, WHAT I LOVED. After his father's funeral, Erik sets about reading his father's memoir hoping to discover the man he never fully understood. Meanwhile, a woman enters Erik's lonely life. As he gets drawn into the cat-and-mouse tactics of someone who is stalking her, he finds out that his sister is also being threatened, by a journalist in possession of a wounding secret from her past .A multi-layered novel, THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN is a thought-provoking and profoundly affecting novel about the secrets and ghosts that haunt…mehr

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The dazzling new novel by the author of the international bestseller, WHAT I LOVED. After his father's funeral, Erik sets about reading his father's memoir hoping to discover the man he never fully understood. Meanwhile, a woman enters Erik's lonely life. As he gets drawn into the cat-and-mouse tactics of someone who is stalking her, he finds out that his sister is also being threatened, by a journalist in possession of a wounding secret from her past .A multi-layered novel, THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN is a thought-provoking and profoundly affecting novel about the secrets and ghosts that haunt families.
My sister called it 'the year of secrets,' but when I look back on it now, I've come to understand that it was a time not of what was there, but of what wasn't.

'It is a rare writer who can both rouse the mind and grip the heart, and all the while provide the sensuous delights of image and language...a compelling narrative in which the past haunts the present of characters so vividly real they become members of your intimate circle and erupt in your dreams... almost impossible to put down, and even harder not to re-read' Lisa Appignanesi, Independent

'Wonderful' Vik Groskop, Observer

'Subtle and complex' Tom Deveson, Sunday Times

'Beautifully thought through, deeply serious and enormously intelligent' Jane Smiley, Guardian