The life to come
By: Michelle De Kretser
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Crows Nest NSW, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781760296568
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Authors; Fiction; Man-woman relationships; International travel; Australian fiction
Description: Pippa is a writer who longs for success. Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time. Driven by riveting stories and unforgettable characters, here is a dazzling meditation on intimacy, loneliness and our flawed perception of other people. Profoundly moving as well as wickedly funny, The Life to Come reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform, distort and undo the present.