An Unexpected Guest - Large Print by Anne Korkeakivi (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Like Virginia Woolf did in "Mrs. Dalloway, " Korkeakivi brilliantly weaves the complexities of an age into an act as deceptively simple as hosting a dinner party.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her husband's career. As she shops for fresh stalks of asparagus and works out the menu and seating arrangements, her day is complicated by the unexpected arrival of her son and a random encounter with a Turkish man, whom she discovers is a suspected terrorist. <p/> Like Virginia Woolf did in <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i>, Anne Korkeakivi brilliantly weaves the complexities of an age into an act as deceptively simple as hosting a dinner party.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>""An Unexpected Guest" is a quietly intelligent novel about a woman who, at long last, learns to be honest with herself."<BR>--Yvonne Zipp, "Christian Science Monitor"<br><br>"Anne Korkeakivi's writing has all the best qualities of an Ishiguro novel. Clare, a seemingly selfless diplomat's wife, the epitome of restraint and hermetic detachment, unravels before us into a woman of dangerous allegiances, passions, and moral dilemmas, in prose that is both beautiful and razor sharp. Paris is depicted with subtle complexity, a city that reposes as it threatens, full of scorn and grace. Korkeakivi's sense of detail is remarkable while grounded in authenticity. "An Unexpected Guest" is a feast of a novel."<BR>--George Hagen, author of "The Laments"<br><br>"In this first novel, Korkeakivi updates Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" with a new heroine....The book is as wonderfully self-possessed as it leading lady, and winningly suspenseful as well."---"Whole Living Magazine"<br><br>"Korkeakivi fluidly fuses the past and present, building a solid character in Clare and powerfully exploring whether redemption from past regrets is possible and the lengths one must go to attain it."---"Publisher's Weekly"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Anne Korkeakivi</b> is the author of the novel <i>An Unexpected Guest</i>. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications in the United States and Britain, including <i>The Yale Review</i> and <i>The Atlantic</i>, and she is a Hawthornden Fellow. Born and raised in New York City, she has lived in France and Finland, and currently resides in Geneva, Switzerland, where her husband is a human rights lawyer with the United Nations. They have two daughters.
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