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Lost on Me - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024

Veronica Raimo
2023, Innbundet, Engelsk
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The 100,000 copy Italian bestseller for fans of Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy

Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult, Vero''s need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations: she tries (and fails) to run away to Paris at the age of fifteen; she moves into an unwitting older boyfriend''s house after they have been together for less than a week; and she sets up a fraudulent (and wildly successful) street clothing stall to raise funds to go to Mexico. Most of all, she falls in love - repeatedly, dramatically, and often with the most unlikely and inappropriate of candidates.

As she continues to plot escapades and her mother''s relentless tracking methods and guilt-tripping mastery thwart her at every turn, it is no wonder tha

Anmeldelser av Lost on Me:

Excellent ... written in a spare and precise style from the pen of a biting narrator. It would be simply impossible for a book this good to go unnoticed
- Big Issue
I fell head over heels in love with Lost on Me. What a thrillingly original voice! Raimo writes with a tender brutality that is simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking
- Monica Ali, author of Love Marriage
Remarkable. A darkly funny novel of rhythm, subtlety and nuance ... a writer who deserves as wide an audience as possible
- New European
Highly entertaining, thought-provoking and one of 2023's best novels yet
- Strong Words
Restless and sly ... intelligently spiky
- The Times
This book made me want to clear my calendar and read everything of Raimo's I could get my hands on. Incisive, engrossing, and deeply funny
- Julia May Jonas, author of Vladimir
A uproariously funny portrait of an unconventional family from a writer who knows the sliver of ice in the heart as well as she knows love. This deliciously enjoyable novel is a true original and one to savour
- Katherine Heiny
I adored Lost on Me. With combustive prose and oxidising wit, Veronica Raimo sets fire to the Bildungsroman. A clear-eyed comedic talent who bends the novel form to her will
- Naoise Dolan
Is it possible, today, to completely reinvent auto-fiction? For Veronica Raimo it clearly is. Get ready to talk about this book for a long, long time
- Paolo Giordano, author of The Solitude of Prime Nu
When the book you start reading is immediately hilarious and deeply disturbing, you know you're onto something special. Lost on Me is that book
- Roddy Doyle

Produktegenskaper

  • Forfatter

    Veronica Raimo

  • Bidragsyter

    Raimo, Veronica

  • Forlag/Utgiver

    SD Books

  • Format

    Innbundet

  • Språk

    Engelsk

  • Utgivelsesår

    2023

  • Antall sider

    224

  • Varenummer

    9780349017662

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