Julia Armfield

Broschiertes Buch

Private Rites

Beschreibung

A NEW YORK TIMES Editors' Choice! From the BELOVED, AWARD-WINNING author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world "One of my FAVORITE NOVELS of the past few years." -Jeff VanderMeer, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Annihilation It's been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and old rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father, an architect as cruel as he was revered, dies. His death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way. In the grand glass house they grew up in, their father's most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will. The sisters are more estranged than ever, and their lives spin out of control: Irene's relationship is straining at the seams, Isla's ex-wife keeps calling, and cynical Agnes is falling in love for the first time. But something even more sinister might be unfolding, something related to their mother's long-ago disappearance and the strangers who have always seemed unusually interested in the sisters' lives. Soon, it becomes clear that the sisters have been chosen for a very particular purpose, one with shattering implications for their family and their imperiled world.

Autor

Julia Armfield is the author of the novels Private Rites and Our Wives Under the Sea, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror and Best Debut Novel, and the story collection salt slow. Her work has been published in Granta, Lighthouse, Analog Magazine, Neon, and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. She is the winner of the White Review Short Story Prize and a Pushcart Prize, and she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Awards in 2019. She lives and works in London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Flatiron Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 137mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9781250344335
• ISBN-10: 1250344336
• Artikelnr.: 72602740

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'A page-turner that makes you slow down to appreciate the brilliance of the prose. One of my favourite novels of the past few years' Jeff VanderMeer, author of Absolution

'Evocative yet grounded, blending the mythical with the cavalier... Her imagination is vivid' Observer

'Armfield writes so gracefully. I love her glancing, pitiless social observations' The Times

'Seductive...compelling...brilliantly audacious' Guardian

'Intriguing and provocative... A writer worth reading' Financial Times

'Characteristically eerie and emotive' GQ

'An evocative mystery set at the end of the world' Guardian

'A hauntingly good book

about family, faith and the climate crisis' iNews

'The emotional depth and unique storytelling ensures Armfield's reputation as a distinctive voice ... a must-read for fans of her hauntingly beautiful prose' Glamour

'Armfield lends a quasi-mythic dimension to an intimate story of sibling rivalry and familial disinheritance' Daily Mail

'A sharply observed exploration of grief, family and the end of the world as we know it' Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller

'A book of extraordinary sentences, set in end-times which feel bleakly real yet pulse with a tireless, tangible force of love' Megan Hunter, author of The End We Start From

'Witty, brutal ... Private Rites has the elemental power of a thunderstorm and the thrilling emotional honesty of a first kiss ... An era-defining writer' Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time

'An astonishing ambitious novel that won't let you go' Sarvat Hasin, author of The Giant Dark

'Lyrical, haunting, unsettling, and J.G. Ballard-ian in apocalyptic scope ... Deeply, passionately, messily human' Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World

'Exquisite ... ... A masterful feat, and a joy to read -awe-inspiring' Peter Scalpello, author of Limbic

'Beauty aches through every word' Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds a Girl

'Intimate, unnerving and sopping wet' Alison Rumfitt, author of Brainwyrms