Katie Kitamura

En ung kvinna har kommit överens med sin otrogne make att det är dags för dem att separera. Men trots att de sen ett halvår tillbaka inte längre lever tillsammans är det fortfarande en hemlighet. Hon har just påbörjat sitt nya liv med en ny man när hennes exsvärmor ringer henne och berättar oroligt att hon försökt få tag i Christopher som verkar ha försvunnit i en avlägsen region i södra Grekland. Hon går motvilligt med på att åka dit för att leta efter honom. Men när hon anländer till hotellet är Christopher inte där, han har inte synts till på ett tag och skulle dessutom ha checkat ut för ett par dagar sen. Med en nervkittlande historia om intimitet och otrohet berättar Katie Kitamura om separationer från personer man levt nära, men också om att ha modet att våga betrakta sig själv. Katie Kitamura är bosatt i New York där hon jobbar som journalist, kritiker, författare och föreläser på NYU. Hennes tidigare två böcker Gone to the Forest och The Longshotblev båda nominerade till New York Public Library s Young Lions Fiction Award. Katie Kitamura har en Ph. D i Amerikansk litteratur från London. Separationen är så välskriven och helt utan språkliga hinder, att minsta gupp verkar laddat med mening. Fantastisk! KARL-OVE KNAUSGÅRD Katie Kitamuras spännande och hypnotiska roman om otrohet oroar både bokens karaktärer och dess läsare. KIRKUS REVIEWS Kitamura är en författare med en vision och en visuell fantasi. THE NEW YORKER Separationen gör dig nyfiken och imponerad men också duktigt irriterad. THE GUARDIAN Kitamura river fasader och kastar sig ut på djupt vatten. Resultatet blir en vacker krutdurk av en roman, som utmanar alla förväntningar. INDEPENDENT

From the award-winning author of Intimacies and Audition 'An absolutely mesmerizing work of art' Rachel Kushner 'A novel so seamless, that follows its path with such consequence, that even minor deviations seem loaded with meaning. Wonderful.' Karl Ove Knausgaard A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, alone, she gets word that her ex-husband has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged southern Peloponnese. Reluctantly she agrees to go and search for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. Adrift in the wild and barren landscape, she traces the failure of their relationship, and finds that she understands less than she thought about the man she used to love. A story of intimacy, infidelity and compassion, A Separation is about the gulf that divides us from the lives of others and the narratives we create to mask our true emotions. As the narrator reflects upon her love for a man who may never have been what he appeared, Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on the brink of catastrophe. A Separation is a riveting masterpiece of absence and presence that will leave the reader astonished, and transfixed.

A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club Pick A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, The A. V. Club, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Refinery29, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, NYLON, BookRiot. "Kitamura's prose gallops, combining Elena Ferrante-style intricacies with the tensions of a top-notch whodunit." --ElleThis is her story. About the end of her marriage. About what happened when Christopher went missing and she went to find him. These are her secrets, this is what happened... A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go look for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. As her search comes to a shocking breaking point, she discovers she understands less than she thought she did about her relationship and the man she used to love. A searing, suspenseful story of intimacy and infidelity, A Separation lays bare what divides us from the inner lives of others. With exquisitely cool precision, Katie Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on edge, with a fiercely mesmerizing story to tell.

En ung kvinne har blitt enig med sin notorisk utro ektemann: Det er på tide at de går fra hverandre. Foreløpig er dette noe de ikke sprer og forteller blant familie og venner, det er deres hemmelighet. Så forsvinner han. Han blir borte under et opphold i det sørlige Hellas, der hotellrommet plutselig står tomt. Hun drar motvillig for å lete etter ham, på tross av at hun allerede er i gang med et nytt liv. Når hun forstår at hun aldri kommer til å se ham igjen blir hun også nødt til å innse at hun ikke har et avklaret forhold til mannen hun en gang elsket. En separasjon er en særdeles spennende roman om intimitet, utenforskap og utroskap. Med kjølig presisjon vikler Kitamura oss inn i en ung kvinnes livserfaringer og i den medrivende historien hun har å fortelle. Den amerikanske forfatteren og kritikeren Katie Kitamura (f. 1979) debuterte med den kritikerroste romanen The Longshot i 2009, etterfulgt av Inn i skogene i 2012 (Pelikanen 2013). Kitamura har skrevet for en rekke publikasjoner, deriblant The New York Times, The Guardian og Granta.

*San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2012*Financial Times Best Book of 2012*New Yorker Best Book of 2012 FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE LONGSHOT comes this gripping saga about the destruction of a family, a home, and a way of life. Set on a struggling farm in a colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war, Gone to the Forest is a tale of family drama and political turmoil in which fiery storytelling melds with daring, original prose. Since his mother's death, Tom and his father have fashioned a strained domestic peace, where everything is frozen under the old man's vicious control. But when a young woman named Carine arrives at the farm, the tension between the two men escalates to the breaking point. Hailed by the Boston Globe as "a major talent," Kitamura shines in this powerful new novel.

Agripping, eye-opening and truly original novel in which a friendship is tested to the limit and everything rests on one last chance...

Abrilliant, spare debut novel that follows a former mixed martial arts star and his longtime coach over the course of three fraught days as they prepare for his momentous comeback match. Four years after Rivera knocked Cal from dominance, Cal's coach, Riley, has set up a rematch--it will be good for Cal, and he's ready for it. He's been training harder than ever, trying to shake the lethargy that's plagued him ever since he lost. Knowing he's going to face Rivera again, he gets his focus and energy back. He agrees with Riley: he's ready. But Rivera has never lost a fight, and in the final days before the match, both Cal and Riley secretly begin to doubt that he can be beaten now. The stakes are high for them--not only do they have no idea what else they'll do with themselves besides MMA, they're also desperate not to let each other down. In taut, rhythmic language, Katie Kitamura--a journalist who has followed MMA for years--renders the urgency, discipline, and mutual affection of athlete and coach with depth and subtlety. As an excruciating tension builds toward the final electrifying scene, their plight becomes our plight, the looming fight becomes every challenge each of us has ever taken on, however uncertain the outcome. This striking debut upholds a tradition of literary writing about gritty subject matter that includes Denis Johnson and Norman Mailer and goes back through Dos Passos, Steinbeck, and Hemingway. Fans of literary fiction will be drawn to The Finish's stylized, sensitive portrait of two men striving to stay true to themselves and each other in the only way they know how.

An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime the interpreter becomes increasingly obsessed with as she befriends the victim's sister. And she's pulled into an explosive political controversy when she's asked to interpret for a former president accused of war crimes. A woman of quiet passion, she confronts power, love, and violence, both in her personal intimacies and in her work at the Court. She is soon pushed to the precipice, where betrayal and heartbreak threaten to overwhelm her, forcing her to decide what she wants from her life.