Iain Reid

LA NOVELA EN LA QUE SE BASA LA PELÍCULA DIRIGIDA POR CHARLIE KAUFMAN Tendrás miedo, pero no sabrás por qué... «Estoy pensando en dejarlo». Una vez que llega este pensamiento, se queda. Está presen

Reads like a house on fire' - the extraordinary new novel by Iain Reid, the acclaimed author of Im Thinking of Ending Things You think you know everything about your life. Long-married couple Junior and Henrietta live a quiet, solitary life on their farm, where they work at the local feed mill and raise chickens. Their lives are simple, straightforward, uncomplicated.Until everything you think you know collapses. Until the day a stranger arrives at their door with alarming news: Junior has been chosen to take an extraordinary journey, a journey across both time and distance, while Hen remains at home. Junior will be gone for years.But Hen won't be left alone. Who can you trust if you can't even trust yourself? As the time for his departure draws nearer, Junior finds himself questioning everything about his life - even whether it's really his life at all. An eerily entrancing page-turner, Foe churns with unease and suspense from the first words to its shocking finale.

Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her, for a room in a unique long-term care residence, where Penny finds herself after one too many incidents.Initially, surrounded by peers, conversing, eating, sleeping, looking out at the beautiful woods that surround the house, all is well. She even begins to paint again. But as the days start to blur together, Penny with a growing sense of unrest and distrust starts to lose her grip on the passage of time and on her place in the world. Is she succumbing to the subtly destructive effects of aging, or is she an unknowing participant in something more unsettling?At once compassionate and uncanny, told in spare, hypnotic prose, Iain Reids genre-defying third novel explores questions of conformity, art, productivity, relationships, and what, ultimately, it means to grow old.

Del autor de "Estoy pensando en dejarlo", una novela de suspense filosófico sobre el arte y el paso del tiempoPenny es artista y lleva varias décadas viviendo en el mismo apartamento, rodeada de los objetos y los recuerdos de su larga vida. Resignada a los rituales triviales de la vejez, un dia empieza a sufrir lapsus. Años atras, antes de que falleciera el que habia sido su pareja durante mucho tiempo, se hicieron preparativos, sin que ella lo supiera, para reservarle una habitacion en una singular residencia en la que, tras sufrir demasiados incidentes, acaba ingresando.Al principio, acompañada de personas como ella, conversando, contemplando los hermosos bosques que rodean la casa, todo va bien. Incluso empieza a pintar de nuevo. Pero a medida que los dias comienzan a difuminarse, Penny, con una creciente sensacion de inquietud y desconfianza, empieza a perder la nocion del paso del tiempo y del lugar que ocupa ella en el mundo. ¿Esta sucumbiendo a los efectos sutilmente destructivos del envejecimiento o esta participando, sin saberlo, en algo mas inquietante?Al mismo tiempo compasiva y extraña, narrada con una prosa austera e hipnotica, esta novela de Iain Reid, dificil de clasificar en un genero concreto, explora las cuestiones de la conformidad, el arte, la productividad, las relaciones y lo que, en ultima instancia, significa hacerse viejo.