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Disquiet |
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| eBook: Adobe reader | 128 pages | ISBN 9781440641398 | 25 Nov 2008 | Penguin |
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Olivia arrives at her mother’s chateau in rural France (the first time in more than a decade) with her two young children in tow. Soon the family is joined by Olivia’s brother Marcus and his wife Sophie—but this reunion is far from joyful. After years of desperately wanting a baby, Sophie has just given birth to a stillborn child, and she is struggling to overcome her devastation. Meanwhile, Olivia wrestles with her own secrets about the cruel and violent man she married many years before. Exquisitely written and reminiscent of Ian McEwan and J. M. Coetzee, Disquiet is a darkly beautiful and atmospheric story that will linger in the mind long after the final page is turned.
“A powerful and disquieting novella, a work of fiction so infused with the practices of film that, while each scene is fully and even vividly realized in words, it also translates quite naturally into film, into a visually rich action taking place before the inner eye.”
—J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace
“This is a writer with terrifying control of the dreamscape. And, yes, those are the ones to watch out for.”
— The Los Angeles Times
“Ian McEwan’s Atonement comes to mind—but Leigh has a hypnotic power all her own.”
—People
“Hypnotic…Leigh sustains the tension between life and death until the very end. It's difficult to imagine a reader who will not be electrified by this haunting, masterfully told story. Indeed, it's difficult to imagine a reader who will not be changed by it.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Artfully fulfilling the promise – or threat – of its title, the tale exudes a chill moonlight beauty, a tribute to the finesse of its author, Julia Leigh.”
—The Boston Globe
“[Leigh’s] mentor was the Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, and this gothic little book is the result of that pairing.”
—NY Times
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