Beschreibung
‘A beautifulbook . . . crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art and love’ WallStreet Journal When a womanunexpectedly loses a lifelong friend and mentor to suicide, she finds herselfburdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against griefis intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane that hadbeen devoted to its suddenly vanished master, and by the threat of eviction:dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. TheFriend is both a meditation on friendship, loss andbereavement, and a celebration of the wonder and healing power of thehuman-canine bond. ‘A pitch-perfectnovel . . . Wry and moving, The Friend is a love story, amania story, and a recovery story’ Vanity Fair ‘An intimate, beautiful thing, humming withinsight’ The Economist ‘Dry, allusive,charming . . . Nunez has an interesting mind, and she shakes the dust fromevery topic – grief, writing, academia, sexual politics – she picks up’ New York Times Critics’ Top Books of2018 ‘A sneaky gutpunch of a novel . . . a consummate example of the human-animal tale’ Harper’sMagazine
Sigrid Nunez is the New York Times bestselling author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award, and of seven other novels, including Salvation City, The Last of Her Kind, and What Are You Going Through. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages.