An Unexpected Guest: A Novel
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品牌: Anne Korkeakivi
基本信息出版社:Little, Brown and Company (2012年4月17日)精装:288页正文语种:英语ISBN:0316196770条形码:9780316196772商品尺寸:16.5 x 2.5 x 24.8 cm商品重量:490 gASIN:0316196770商品描述内容简介Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her husband's career. As she shops for fresh stalks of asparagus and works out the menu and seating arrangements, her day is complicated by the unexpected arrival of her son and a random encounter with a Turkish man, whom she discovers is a suspected terrorist.
Like Virginia Woolf did inMrs. Dalloway, Anne Korkeakivi brilliantly weaves the complexities of an age into an act as deceptively simple as hosting a dinner party.媒体推荐"Anne Korkeakivi's writing has all the best qualities of an Ishiguro novel. Clare, a seemingly selfless diplomat's wife, the epitome of restraint and hermetic detachment, unravels before us into a woman of dangerous allegiances, passions, and moral dilemmas, in prose that is both beautiful and razor sharp. Paris is depicted with subtle complexity, a city that reposes as it threatens, full of scorn and grace. Korkeakivi's sense of detail is remarkable while grounded in authenticity.An Unexpected Guestis a feast of a novel." (George Hagen, author ofThe Laments)
"A taut tender suspenseful novel, delicately told." (Fernanda Eberstadt, author ofRatandThe Furies)
"Anne Korkeakivi writes wonderfully about embassy manners, food, and Paris, and she writes even better about the darker world that threatens to disrupt not just Clare's seating plan for dinner but her entire life.An Unexpected Guest, like its heroine, is a novel of great elegance, enormous surprises, and unexpected depths." (Margot Livesey, author ofThe House on Fortune Street)
"Anne Korkeakivi knows her expat life as well as the protocol of diplomacy-from the flowers and trees and markets of Paris to the meetings behind closed doors. Clare is an observant, intelligent woman whose elegant existence includes endless dinner arrangements, to-do lists, and the necessity of irreproachable behavior. Yet she has a secret that seems destined to burst and shatter her comfortable life and that of her family.An Unexpected Guestwill draw you in and keep you breathlessly turning pages, even as you admire its intelligence and fine writing." (Thomas E. Kennedy, author ofIn the Company of AngelsandFalling Sideways)
"An Unexpected Guestis a lovingly detailed account of a day in the life of the wife of a British diplomat in Paris. But what a day! She deals with protocol, place settings and a temperamental cook and at the same time a troubled son, an Irish complication, and a suspected Turkish terrorist. Virginia Woolf meets Eric Ambler - and readers meet a charming heroine who rises to all occasions." (John Casey, National Book Award-winning author ofSpartinaandCompass Rose:)
"Korkeakivi creates a Paris as crisp and unruffled as her heroine--and just as likely to surprise." (Elizabeth Bard, author ofLunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes)
"Deep private tension animates the perfect ambassador's wife as she manages one of the most important days of her husband's career, the complexities of her surprising past converging rapidly upon the present where an entire emotional life is balancing on a delicate, invisible wire. A beautifully written novel about living with our many selves. " (Nicola Keegan, author ofSwimming)
Korkeakivi fluidly fuses the past and present, building a solid character in Clare and powerfully exploring whether redemption from past regrets is possible and the lengths one must go to attain it. (Publisher's Weekly)
