Asymmetry

'A scorchingly intelligent first novel' New York Times'Spellbinding' New Yorker'Thrilling' GuardianIn New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life.

About the author

Lisa Halliday has lived in Italy since 2011. Her first novel, Asymmetry, was published in twenty languages, and was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. She received a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2017.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Halliday, Halliday Lisa, Lisa Hallyday
• Assisted by: Bella Lacey (Editor)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.10.2018
• EAN: 9781783783625
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-362-5
• No. of pages: 275
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Adult & contemporary romance, FICTION / Literary, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary