The Swimmers

The Swimmers
Julie Otsuka
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Hardback
h204 x 132mm - 192pg
24 Feb 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780241543887
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A bold and lyrical novel about memory, love, a swimming pool - and the many ways we lose and find each other againFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the AtticUp 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.
Here comes the new Julie Otsuka novel, so we can begin to live again * Colson Whitehead, author of Harlem Shuffle * Heartbreaking and astoundingly good * Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers * An unforgettable novel about mothers and daughters by a spellbinding talent * Daily Mail * Stylistically ambitious and deeply moving * Kirkus Reviews * A tender, nuanced, empathetic exploration of the sorrows and consolations of a whole generation of women * Telegraph - In praise of The Buddha in the Attic * A goddamn heartbreaker * Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers * Powerfully moving . . . intensely lyrical . . . verges on the edge of poetry * The Independent - In praise of The Buddha in the Attic * Intriguing . . . fleeting, singular images pile up and reverberate against each other to strange, memorable effect * Metro - In praise of The Buddha in the Attic * Sweeping, symphonic, empathic . . . subtle, infinitely skilful . . . an exhilarating, compulsive read. Otsuka' s haunting, heartbreaking conclusion, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, is faultless * Daily Mail - In praise of The Buddha in the Attic *
Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is the author of the novel When the Emperor Was Divine and a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241543887
Published: 24 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fig Tree
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 204mm
Width: 132mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 192

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