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Köp båda 2 för 435 krMakkais second novel defies genre part literary mystery, part comedy of manners, part wickedly funny satire. Whichever way you look at it, its remarkable. * Daily Mail * Rebecca Makkai is a writer to watch, as sneakily ambitious as she is unpretentious. -- Richard Russo Makkai humorously turns the conventional family saga on its head, in a clever exploration of metamorphosis and secrecy. * Huffington Post * Makkai has written a novel that reads almost like early Muriel Spark clever, competent, and concealing an unsettling and skewed reality ... The hand that keeps giving the kaleidoscope another turn, controlling just how the pieces land, isn't fate, of course. It's the artist, Makkai is one. * Chicago Tribune * A big-hearted gothic novel, an intergenerational mystery, a story of heartbreak and a romance, all crammed into one grand Midwestern estate ... A juicy and moving story of art and love and the luck it takes for either to last. * Los Angeles Times *
Rebecca Makkais first novel, The Borrower, was a Booklist Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, and an O Magazine selection. Her short fiction has appeared in Harpers, Tin House, Ploughshares, and New England Review, and has been selected four times for The Best American Short Stories. The recipient of a 2014 NEA Fellowship, she lives in Chicago and Vermont.