International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award

The brillaint Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," now gives us a stunning story of two sisters and the strange patterns of identity and love. The Sharpe sisters have lived a careful and contemplative existence. Miriam is a translator of French texts and Beatrice a moderately successful pianist. Their lives of quiet sophistication are suddenly interupted by several complicated men: Max, Beatrice's agent; Simon, a handsome and charming married man; and Tom Rivers, a journalist who befriends Miriam. These men create disorder in the Sharpe sisters' controlled lives as Miriam, the unromantic stoic of the two, begins an affair and Beatrice's career undergoes an unexpected change.The exquisite writing, affecting characters and astonishing psychological perceptions for which Anita Brookner is famous are evident on every page of this beautiful novel by a modern master.
Anita Brookner is the author of eighteen finely crafted novels, including Visitors (nominated for the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Dolly, Fraud, Altered States, and Hotel du Lac, which won the Booker Prize, and Incidents in the Rue Laugier (nominated for the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award). An international authority on eighteenth-century painting, she became the first female Slade Professor at Cambridge University. She lives in London.

Falling Slowly: a novel by Anita Brookner Nominated by:

Falling Slowly: a novel by
Anita Brookner

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