Diver's Clothes Lie Empty - Couverture souple

Vida, Vendela

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ISBN 10 : 1782397701 ISBN 13 : 9781782397700

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Ms Vida's novel portrays with cool wit and suspense the explosive emancipation of a woman who is finally empowered to grab some warmth, drama, magic for herself. -- New York Times
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty is a chilling tale about the gradual loss of identity - a novel of doubles, invisibility and lies, poised somewhere between a fever-dream and a suspenseful thriller. Populated by a mysterious cast of shady women, Vendela Vida perfectly captures what it feels like to be unreal, especially to oneself, and grasping at roles in order to survive. --Sheila Heti, author of How Should A Person Be?
Vendela Vida has written a truly original novel, a work of art that shines with Buñuelian play and cruelty. The situation is discomfiting and addictive. You will be driven to read this novel compulsively, and then you will have the same strange sly smile that I do, now. --Rachel Kushner
You will tear through Vendela Vida's The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty, this wry, edgy, philosophical thriller, this love child of Albert Camus and Patricia Highsmith, this sly satire of Hollywood, this entertaining journey through the vast desert of identity and regret. --Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins
Reviews for Vendela Vida's previous works include:
Vida is capable of taking the breath away with her cool treatment of the unkind twists of one woman's fate.' Scotland on Sunday 'Thoughtful and evocative... I defy any reader not to cry at the ending' Observer 'Excellent... A moving work on the tumbling, overwhelming emotions.' Independent 'A stingingly acute portrait of grief, a moving meditation on love and a page-turning adventure.' Zoë Heller 'Masterful... I was so enthralled by the grief, the sticky and sandy details... that I didn't realize how deep in I was. I read the last page with a tearful gasp. --Miranda July
Vendela Vida's work is utterly compelling, surprising, economical, lush, beautifully written. Reading her inspires me, and reminds me of how powerful the novel can be - how addictive and vital - and of how rarely a writer as precise, artful, and passionate as her comes along. --George Saunders

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From the acclaimed author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Lovers comes a tensely drawn, spellbinding literary thriller that gets to the heart of what defines us as human beings—the singular identity we create for ourselves in the world and the myriad alternative identities that lie just below the surface.

In Vendela Vida’s taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. Almost immediately, while checking into her hotel, she is robbed, her passport and all identification stolen. The crime is investigated by the police, but the woman feels there is a strange complicity between the hotel staff and the authorities—she knows she’ll never see her possessions again.

Stripped of her identity, she feels both burdened by the crime and liberated by her sudden freedom to be anyone at all. Then, a chance encounter with a film crew provides an intriguing opportunity: A producer sizes her up and asks, would she be willing to be the body-double for a movie star filming in the city? And so begins a strange journey in which she’ll become a stand-in—both on-set and off—for a reclusive celebrity who can no longer circulate freely in society while gradually moving further away from the person she was when she arrived in Morocco.

Infused with vibrant, lush detail and enveloped in an intoxicating atmosphere—while barely pausing to catch its breath—The Diver's Clothes Lie Emptyis a riveting, entrancing novel that explores freedom, power and the mutability of identity.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1782397701
• ISBN 13: 9781782397700
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216