Jo Hamya

Broschiertes Buch

The Hypocrite

Beschreibung

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation's Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father's fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter's voice. "Impressive...An intense, onrushing, highly pressurized book, best experienced in a single sitting, like a play." --Wall Street Journal August 2020. Sophia, a young playwright, awaits her father's verdict on her new show. A famous author whose novels haven't aged as gracefully into the modern era as he might have hoped, he is completely unaware that the play centers around a vacation the two took years earlier to an island off Sicily, where he dictated to her a new book. Sophia's play has been met with rave reviews, but her father has studiously avoided reading any of them. When the house lights dim however, he understands that his daughter has laid him bare, has used the events of their summer to create an incisive, witty, skewering critique of the attitudes and sexual mores of the men of his generation. Set through one staging of the play, The Hypocrite seamlessly and scorchingly shifts time and perspective, illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that, with impeccable nuance, examines the fraught inheritances each generation is left to contend with and the struggle to nurture empathy in a world changing at lightning-speed.

Autor

Jo Hamya was born in London in 1997. She is the author of Three Rooms and The Hypocrite, which was shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2024. She has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times and the Guardian, among others, and served as co-host of the Booker Prize Podcast. She is also the recipient of a Harold Moody doctoral studentship at King's College London, where her research focuses around building on 20th century western literary sociology and critique to create a viable school of literary criticism for a 21st century digitised landscape.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 128mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780593686263
• ISBN-10: 0593686268
• Artikelnr.: 73922440

Rezensionen

I thought The Hypocrite was brilliant. Thrilling and unpredictable, as a story of misunderstanding and failed connection, told with a dreamy, Sofia Coppola-esque quality. As a portrayal of artistic creation fuelled by bitterness, The Hypocrite uncovers an uncomfortable truth: how a piece of art can both unify and alienate Natasha Brown, author of ASSEMBLY