The Blindfold

The Blindfold

by Siri Hustvedt
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Publication Date: 07/06/2012

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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED


'A work of dizzying intensity . . . an intriguing and sure-handed debut ' Don DeLillo


'Brilliant . . . a dark, mesmerising debut' Independent on Sunday


'Hustvedt has pulled off nothing less than a re-mapping of the modern feminist psyche' Daily Telegraph


Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris takes on a life of its own; an old woman in hospital who tries to claim a remnant of the ailing Iris; and a professor she has an affair with. An exploration of female identity in an age when the old definitions - as some man's daughter/wife/mother - no longer apply, fuelled with eroticism and a sense of menace.


'Attests to Hustvedt's thoroughly original style and her lucid contemporary voice . . . the announcement of a talented writer's arrival' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times


PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT:


'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie


'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks


'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch' Financial Times


'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post

ISBN:
9781444719567
9781444719567
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-06-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt's first novel, The Blindfold, was published by Sceptre in 1993. Since then she has published The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men and The Blazing World, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.

She is also the author of the poetry collection Reading To You, and four collections of essays: Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting, A Plea for Eros and Living, Thinking, Looking, as well as the memoir The Shaking Woman: A History of My Nerves.

Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and in 2012 was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She delivered the Schelling Lecture in Aesthetics in Munich in 2010, the Freud Lecture in Vienna in 2011 and the opening keynote at the conference to mark Kierkegaard's 200th anniversary in Copenhagen in 2013, while her latest honorary doctorate is from the University of Gutenburg in Germany.

She is also Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical School and has written on art for the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph and several exhibition catalogues.

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