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'An extraordinary piece of writing stunningly bold, original and humane.'Joanna Kavenna, Daily TelegraphA Guardian / New Statesman / Observer / Spectator Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths PrizeIn the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions personal, moral, artistic, practical as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility and the mystery of change.In this precise, short and yet epic cycle of novels, Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life, through a narrative near-silence that draws language towards it. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one's life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.

A l'hivern del 2009, el matrimoni de deu anys de Rachel Cusk es va acabar. La vida tal com ella la coneixia va desaparèixer, «com un trencaclosques que hagués quedat reduït a una pila de peces escant

Mucha suerte es una novela dura y reveladora, capaz de decir algo nuevo de un tema como la maternidad. Construido como un con junto de relatos que se enlazan través de unos personajes que viajan de cuento a cuento, el texto arranca con el relato de una mujer que da a luz en una carcel, y continua luego adentrandose en los detalles domesticos de la vida en los suburbios de las grandes ciudades, donde, en los interiores de unas casitas adosadas de aspecto idilico, se cuecen tensiones de mucho calado. Amas de casa amargadas, madres que ya son abuelas y que intentan conciliar la imagen que tenian de la propia hija con la realidad, y mujeres que tienen la ''suerte'' de cuidar de sus retoños mientras la locura acecha a la puerta de casa.

A pathbreaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy.Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down.In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street.A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands.The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true storyabout art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.

Winner of the Whitbread First Novel AwardAgnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by the most basic interactions.

Romancière qui s'est isolée depuis son second mariage avec Tony, M n'écrit plus mais rêve d'accueillir L, un peintre renommé qu'elle admire, pour une résidence d'artiste. Il finit par accepter son in

M., una escriptora casada, convida un famós pintor a fer una estada creativa al refugi proper a la casa familiar situada a la costa anglesa. Atreta poderosament per les seves pintures, creu que la seva presencia podria ajudar-la a aprofundir i aclarir el sentit de la seva propia existencia. Pero a mesura que va avançant lestiu, llarg i arid, la presencia provocadora de lartista pertorbara la calma de la casa i creara un nou ordre de relacions entre els protagonistes que fara aflorar desitjos i contradiccions ocults i mostrara la dificultat de ser coherents alhora amb el nostre mon intern i les limitacions imposades pel mon extern.Laltra casa es un estudi profund i psicologic sobre les dinamiques que sostenen les relacions humanes i un examen sobre les questions morals que afecten les nostres vides. Una analisi sobre el desti femeni i el privilegi masculi, i el dilema entre la llibertat i la seguretat.Una reflexio sobre lexistencia, la vida autentica i lamor, que ens recorda la capacitat dual de lart delevar-nos i destruir-nos.

A la meitat de la seva vida, l?artista G comença a pintar-ho tot del revés. Amb el temps, acaba dibuixant la seva dona cap per avall. També la retrata poc afavorida i els quadres aconsegueixen un èxi

La esperada nueva novela de Rachel Cusk tras la revolucionaria trilogía A contraluz. Una mujer invita a un prestigioso pintor a pasar una temporada con ella y su familia en una casa de invitados que acaban de construir junto a la remota marisma en la que viven; profundamente conmovida por su pintura, alberga la esperanza de que la particular mirada del artista ilumine desde una nueva perspectiva su propia existencia.La visita alterara la quietud de su vida y le revelara aspectos tan singulares de la existencia humana como la distancia que separa la realidad de las ficciones que nos construimos, las sutiles dinamicas de poder que dominan nuestras relaciones, en especial entre hombres y mujeres, o lo dificil que resulta ser autenticamente libre.Segunda casa añade una pieza clave a la admiradisima obra novelistica de Rachel Cusk, una autora capaz de seguir sorprendiendo a sus numerosos lectores con la inconfundible originalidad, profundidad y penetracion psicologica de su literatura. Una novela de una asombrosa perfeccion formal que, a traves de la meticulosa indagacion en nuestros deseos y contradicciones, nos demuestra que el arte puede ser tan salvifico como destructivo.La autora vuelve a adoptar la primera persona como lugar desde el que diseccionar la experiencia de ser mujer. El yo emerge como una estructura literaria solida y certera; su discurso, sin concesiones, llega a los recovecos mas incomodos de la intimidad femenina. ()Y yo no he parado de subrayar este libro con devota admiracion. Begoña Mendez (El Cultural) M. es una tipica creacion de Cusk: inmersa en procesos de autoconocimiento y sanacion que parten de interrogar y cuestionarlo todo, aspira a descorrer velos, neutralizar convencionalismos y depurar autoengaños () Cusk arriesga mucho descartando la mera descripcion de la emocion y el sentimiento por la interpretacion de esa emocion y ese sentimiento. Antonio Lozano (Cultura/s - La Vanguardia)Si hay una escritora actual capaz de convencerme de que lo que cuenta no es tan esencial con respecto a como lo cuenta es Rachel Cusk. Luis M. Alonso (La Nueva España)Es una version en deuda con "Lorenzo en Taos", la cronica de Mabel Dodge Luhan sobre la estancia de D. H. Lawrence en su casa. La novela de Cusk es un tributo a esa mujer, y este juego de transposicion permite a Cusk hacerse preguntas sobre temas de actualidad con un enfoque original. Aloma Rodriguez (Letras Libres)Cusk tiene seguridad en sus pensamientos y los transmite con conviccion y audacia. Hay firmeza en su prosa y en su discurso. Francisco Millet Alcoba (La Opinion de Murcia)Hay pocas novelas en las mesas de novedades en las que la inteligencia del autor despunte practicamente en cada pagina. "Segunda casa", de Rachel Cusk, es una de estas excepciones. Jordi Nopca (Diari Ara)La narracion, con una densa dimension abstracta, logra horadar los personajes y propone una reflexion en torno al arte, muy entrelazada con la figura del artista, en la que un pretendido salvavidas puede ser una estaca. Leire Escalada (Nuestro Tiempo)La literatura de Cusk requiere nuestra atencion, nos pide que profundicemos en los matices de cada frase. Cada palabra esta pensada para estar donde debe estar y en la medida exacta. Dalia Rajmil (Catorze.ca...

Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down.In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street.A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands.The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true storyabout art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.

** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ** From the critically-acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth -- and a blazing renovation of the form. A little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. Shes a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said.The film star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Her image is everywhere. It has been like that since she was a child.With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. M may live in the same places as real people. She may meet her friends or collect her children from school or walk her dogs as they do. But it seems the rules of reality have melted away.Now, a writer has decided to pay close attention to Ms life, in the hope of understanding who she really is. It is hard not to feel ugly next to M, hard not to feel insignificant. But what truths-about the very experience of living-might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture? Is M to play a character in the book, or is it the writer who is acting the role of M?In this astonishing, explosive novel, Rachel Cusk hunts for the nature of truth without ever swerving away into self-deceptions. She investigates who we are, and pretend to be, at this late stage of modern life when we are hypnotized, more and more effectively, by the images we see everywhere. She shows us that the real value of life might lie not in beauty but in ugliness; in having a self that has survived the violence of the world. Life of M is a beautiful piece of music, audible in a world of noise and spectacle.[Cusk] is a disciple of the truth, and she helps us to see. Lucy Jones, IndependentRoll up, wave a flag and join the crowds to watch Rachel Cusk continue her relentless march through life.Irish Times

WINNER OF THE 2024 GOLDSMITHS PRIZEA brilliant, stark and unsettling feat.ObserverThoughtful and true ... Cusk is a disciple of the truth and she helps us to see.IndependentCusks most formidable, radical and compelling novel yet. The ConversationA path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy.Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down.In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street.A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands.The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story-about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their perceptions and daily lives. In the stifling heat and noise of the city the sequence of voice begins to weave a complex human tapestry. The more they talk the more elliptical their listener becomes, as she shapes and directs their accounts until certain themes begin to emerge: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself. Outline is a novel about writing and talking, about self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form.

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYFunny, poignant, savage, tender and appalling. Helen DunmoreOne of the most intelligent current interpreters of domestic life. Catherine Taylor, Independent on SundayTender, haunting, grimly comic and infinitely disturbing.Evening StandardArlington Park is an ordinary English suburb. Over the course of a single day, the novel moves from one household to another, revealing its characters: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, about to give birth to her fourth child; Maisie, struggling to accept provincial life; and Christine, the optimist and host of a dinner party where the neighbours come together.

** Pre-order Life of M, the new novel from Rachel Cusk, now ** #14 in the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES25 BEST NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE AND THE FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC PRIZEA work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality. Monica Ali, New York TimesOne of the most daringly original and entertaining pieces of fiction Ive ever read.ObserverA perfect synthesis of form and content. Deborah LevyFull of baking light and quiet melancholy and bodies brushing past one another in the heat. Leslie JamisonOutline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss.

WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARDA writer with a poets eye for convincing detail.Sunday TelegraphA funny, knowing tale of middle-class, middle-twenties angst ... Cool, resonant, and accomplished.IndependentTold with irony and insight and some surreally beautiful imagery. At times it made me laugh out loud.Sheila MacKayAgnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by the most basic interactions. Life and love go on without her, but with a little façade she can pass herself off as a success. Beneath the fiction, however, the burden of truth becomes harder to bear.