The Dissident

Zusatztext 'Written in prose as clear as birdsong! the novel grips from first to last.' Scotland on Sunday Informationen zum Autor Nell Freudenberger has taught English in Bangkok and New Delhi, and currently lives in New York City. Her short stories have been and published in Granta and the New Yorker . Her debut, Lucky Girls was shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers. Klappentext A Granta Best Young American NovelistA Granta Best Young American Novelist Zusammenfassung From the award-winning author of Lucky Girls comes an intricately woven novel about secrets, love, art, identity and the shining chaos of everyday American life. Yuan Zho, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one year’s artist’s residency in Los Angeles. He is to be a Visiting Scholar at the St Anselm’s School for Girls, teaching advanced art, and hosted by one of the school’s most devoted families: the wealthy if dysfunctional Traverses. The Traverses are too preoccupied with their own problems to pay their foreign guest much attention, and the dissident is delighted to be left alone – his past links with the radical movements give him good reason to avoid careful scrutiny. The trouble starts when he and his American hosts begin to view one another with clearer eyes.

Product details

• Authors: Nell Freudenberger, Freudenberger Nell
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2013
• EAN: 9781447242697
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-4269-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Guides; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary