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Set over the course of a single rainy day, we follow Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, who confronts her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger; Maisie, despairing at the inevitability with which beauty is destroyed; and Christine, whose troubled, hilarious spirit presides over Arlington Park and the way of life it represents. Rachel Cusk''s sixth novel is her best yet. Full of compassion and wit, she writes about her characters'' domestic lives, their private thoughts and fears with great intelligence and insight.

En un avión, una mujer escucha a su vecino de vuelo contarle la historia de su vida: su trabajo, su matrimonio y la horrible noche que acaba de pasar enterrando al perro de la familia. Esta mujer es Faye, una escritora que viaja a Europa para promocionar el libro que acaba de publicar. Ya en su destino, sus conversaciones con la gente que se encuentra le revelan al lector las mas profundas inquietudes humanas sobre la familia, el amor, la politica, el arte, o la justicia y la injusticia. La tension entre lo que sus interlocutores son y lo que dicen ser se acrecienta a medida que la narracion avanza.Tras A contraluz y Transito, Prestigio cierra de manera brillante un ciclo narrativo que ha sido celebrado como una de las obras mas originales y apasionantes de nuestro tiempo. Una brillante indagacion de los limites de las convenciones narrativas con la que Rachel Cusk ha reinventado la forma de escribir una novela hoy en dia.Rachel Cusk posee una abrumadora escritura divagante, cuyas cualidades le llevan a un virtuosismo discursivo. "Prestigio" es la ultima entrega de una original trilogia. Lourdes Ventura (El Cultural) Excelente trilogia: Rachel Cusk demuestra que la autoficcion no se agota si, como nos enseño Dante, los protagonistas son los otros y no tu. Jorge CarrionQue dificil debe ser escribir asi. Contar desde el silencio todo el ruido de alrededor. Es lo que hace la canadiense Rachael Cusk en su formidable novela "Prestigio". Ferran Bono (Babelia) Hablar de uno mismo a traves de lo que les sucede a los otros. Asi entiende la autoficcion la autora de esta novela que cierra la interesante trilogia que inicio con "A contraluz" y "Transito". No es necesario leerlas para saborear esta ultima, funcionan independientemente, aunque hacerlo inevitablemente ayuda a entender en su complejidad el ambicioso objetivo de una de las narradoras mas interesantes del momento. Mara Malibran (Mujer Hoy) "Prestigio" muestra a Cusk en la plenitud de su arte, consagrada a exprimir la formula de la que ya se sirvio (entrevistas exhaustivas, escuchas pacientes, incursiones en las pruebas y metodos que adopta la supervivencia cotidiana) () Se cierra una pesquisa que nos devuelve a Cusk en el territorio predilecto de sus afanes y busquedas: el dialogo como destilado de la vida. Ricardo Menendez Salmon (La Nueva España) No es facil cerrar una "trilogia" de altos vuelos literarios manteniendo el nivel. Pero, claro, Rachel Cusk no es una escritora cualquiera. Su apuesta por darle otra vuelta de tuerca a la ficcion alcanza en "Prestigio" una cima poco comun: la de mantener, en una novela, la tension propia solo de la vida. Sera porque Faye, su protagonista, es un personaje tan real que parece inventado. Ines Martin Rodrigo (ABC Cultural) Se podria decir mucho mas de Prestigio -y de la trilogia-, pero basta con sospechar que se trata de una obra maestra en tiempo real. Pedro B. Rey (La Nacion) Muchos autores experimentales han rechazado los mecanismos de la narracion, pero Cusk ha encontrado la manera de hacerlo sin sacrificar su tension. Cuando la accion divaga, el lenguaje toma el relevo. Sus frases vibran con inteligencia, como un patron neuronal. Judith Thurman (The New Yorker) Precisa y cautivadora () Inolvidable. &...

Juliet is enraged at the victory of men over women in family life. Amanda is warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework. Solly is confronting her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger. Maisie despairs at the inevitability with which beauty is destroyed. And Christine''s troubled, hilarious spirit presides over Arlington Park and the way of life it represents. Rachel Cusk''s sixth novel is her best yet. Full of compassion and wit, she writes about the domestic lives, private thoughts and fears of a group of remarkable and instantly recognisable women.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021'A classic, but with contemporary urgency thumping through it.'Claire-Louise Bennett, author of PondA woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she lives. Drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision may penetrate the mystery at the centre of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence soon twists the patterns of her secluded household.'The most singular book . . . A psychodrama that is both timeless and up-to-the minute . . . Truly one of a kind.' Justine Jordan, Guardian'A novel of deep insight and scarring honesty.' Martin Chilton, Independent'Re-sets the dial yet again.' Claire Harman, Evening Standard'Extraordinary . . . fearless.' Alex Clark, The Spectator'Glittering brilliance.' Jon Day, Financial Times

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.

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 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.

Tras una dolorosa ruptura sentimental, una escritora se muda a Londres con sus dos hijos. El derrumbe de su matrimonio y su hogar ha provocado profundos cambios −morales, artísticos, prácticos− en su

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.

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.

The Temporary would be worth reading for its self-regarding, utterly thoughtless heroine alone.Financial TimesAn exquisitely written gem.VogueThe wit, dialogue and the uncomfortable perception brought to bear on human relations make The Temporary such a fine achievement.SpectatorRalph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party. Her beauty ignites a blaze of excitement in his troubled heart. But Francine is ravenous for attention, driven by a thirst for conquest, and when Ralph tries politely to extricate himself, he finds he is bound by chains of consequence from which it seems there is no escape. The Temporary paints a merciless portrait of the cut and thrust of modern romance, work and life.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZECusk can pinpoint something profound with the merest detail.IndependentA warning against idealism, brilliantly plotted and eloquently narrated.ScotsmanThis deft, haunting work compels on every page.Daily Mail When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanburys remote family home he is captivated by their bohemian lifestyle. Years later, when he marries the strong-willed, beautiful Rebecca, he is secretly hoping to create his own version of that free-thinking family, but after the birth of their first child, their marriage begins to flounder. The chance to escape once more to his friends country house comes as a welcome relief, until he discovers a family changed and his own romantic notions of country life disintegrating.

A rich meditation: on separation, on possession, on Renaissance artists, and, inevitably, on the transformative nature of travel.The TimesWritten in prose that constantly reminds us what language can do.Times Literary SupplementA writer of almost electrifying intensity ... This book is a ray of intricate sunlight.Irish TimesWhen Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey leads them to both the expected and the surprising, all seen through Cusks sharp and humane perspective.

At times I just wanted to punch the air in a frenzy of delighted recognition. Julie MyersonShe makes you know exactly what it is like to live inside the skin of a particular character, on a certain day, in all its richness.Daily TelegraphCusks writing is so beautiful that I would happily read her account of a trip to the shops on a rainy morning.Literary ReviewThomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy-enough daughter and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere. Then Tonie accepts a big promotion at work and Thomas agrees to become a stay-at-home dad. While Thomas is suddenly faced with the daily silence of an empty house, Tonie finds herself alive to previously unimagined possibilities. And at the head of the family, the ageing Bradshaw parents continue their marital dynamic of bickering and petty undermining.

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.

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.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 From the acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships.Praise for the Outline trilogy:A landmark in twenty-first-century English literature.ObserverPrecise and haunting ... Unforgettable.Jenny OffillAchieves a kind of formal perfection ... masterly.Sally RooneyA work of great stunning beauty, deep insight, and great originality.Monica AliA woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. Over the course of one hot summer, his provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships, and of the struggle to live morally between our internal and external worlds. With its examination of the possibility that art can both save and destroy us, Second Place is deeply affirming of the human soul, while grappling with its darkest demons.