Автор: Susan Minot

A powerful, sensuous new novel from the critically acclaimed author of ‘Evening’.’Mesmerising.’ Vogue’The bedspread was sloughing off the foot of the bed, the white sheets were as flat as paper. This is not what she’d pictured when she asked him over for lunch today. It really wasn’t.’Taking one single interlude – two bodies entwined on a bed at midday, lovers rekindling an old affair – Susan Minot’s new novel chronicles a relationship from the alternating perspectives of a man and a women.Thoughts cascade through Benjamin’s mind,…

Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities on behalf of their leader, the despicable Joseph Kony. Her life becomes a constant struggle to survive, to escape, to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has travelled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her centre after a series of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their stories, giving us razor-sharp portraits of two extraordinary young women…