Alexandra Kleeman – författare

‘An existential thriller written in prose that points the way to the future’ Zadie Smith ‘Fight Club for girls’Vogue LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE A lives with B.B seems to be becoming more and more like A.If A’s boyfriend, C, likes A because A is A, but now B is the same as A, where does that leave A?And what has happened to the family across the street, who left one afternoon out of nowhere, covered in sheets with holes cut out for the eyes?‘Comical, malignant and addictive’ Adam Thirlwell‘As good a debut as I’ve ever read’ Zadie Smith‘This book will unsettle you; this book will make you feel intensely alive’ Buzzfeed

‘An existential thriller written in prose that points the way to the future’ Zadie Smith‘Fight Club for girls’VogueLONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEA lives with B.B seems to be becoming more and more like A.If A’s boyfriend, C, likes A because A is A, but now B is the same as A, where does that leave A?And what has happened to the family across the street, who left one afternoon out of nowhere, covered in sheets with holes cut out for the eyes?‘Comical, malignant and addictive’ Adam Thirlwell‘As good a debut as I’ve ever read’ Zadie Smith‘This book will unsettle you; this book will make you feel intensely alive’Buzzfeed

‘An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure’ Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies‘Magnificent and stunning’ Jeff VanderMeer, author of Hummingbird Salamander‘An immense achievement. Masterful and merciless’ Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum RoadA bold, addictive and urgent new novel about capitalism, environmental collapse and our near future.What is really going on?Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood to see his novel be adapted for the screen, but why does he get the feeling that the film project is a smokescreen for something else? Does Cassidy Carter, the troubled starlet due to play the lead, know something he doesn’t? And what is the truth about WAT-R, the synthetic water everyone drinks in LA?Sharply funny, alluring and devastating, Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present moment.‘Sun-drenched, sharply observed and swift-moving… strange and new’ Guardian‘Profoundly affecting – somehow both funny and deeply unsettling’ Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind‘Expertly conjures California noir filtered through the ambient and not-so-ambient apocalypse’ Emma Cline, author of The GirlsA WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR • A LIT HUB BEST BOOK OF 2021

‘An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure’ Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies‘Magnificent and stunning’ Jeff VanderMeer, author of Hummingbird Salamander‘An immense achievement. Masterful and merciless’ Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum Road A bold, addictive and urgent new novel about capitalism, environmental collapse and our near future. What is really going on?Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood to see his novel be adapted for the screen, but why does he get the feeling that the film project is a smokescreen for something else? Does Cassidy Carter, the troubled starlet due to play the lead, know something he doesn’t? And what is the truth about WAT-R, the synthetic water everyone drinks in LA?Sharply funny, alluring and devastating, Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present moment. ‘Sun-drenched, sharply observed and swift-moving… strange and new’ Guardian ‘Profoundly affecting – somehow both funny and deeply unsettling’ Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind ‘Expertly conjures California noir filtered through the ambient and not-so-ambient apocalypse’ Emma Cline, author of The Girls A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR • A LIT HUB BEST BOOK OF 2021

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental collapse in “a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality” (Time) LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vulture, Thrillist, Literary Hub “An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure.”—Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies Novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Los Angeles to oversee the film adaptation of one of his books and try to impress his wife and daughter back home with this last-ditch attempt at professional success. But California is not as he imagined. Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are everywhere, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick finds an unlikely partner in Cassidy Carter—the cynical starlet of his film—and the two investigate the sun-scorched city, where they discover the darker side of all that glitters in Hollywood. Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present moment—a bold exploration of environmental catastrophe in the age of alternative facts, and “a ghost story not of the past but of the near future” (The New York Times).

Utanför fönstret har jag sett barn leka i snön, till synes omedvetna om att den består av kristaller och att varje flinga är ömtålig och omöjlig att återskapa. Jag har sett snön smälta i deras händer, men aldrig känt den smälta i mina egna. Hur beskriver man världen instängd bakom femton centimeter tjockt plexiglas? Vad gör man när man vaknar ensam om natten i ett hus som känns mindre och mindre bebott? Och hur kan en pappa kontrollera vädret när han inte ens kan kontrollera sig själv? I långnovellen Väderlekar utforskar Alexandra Kleeman inre och yttre väder med ett språk lika uppfinningsrikt som familjen hon skildrar. Alexandra Kleeman, född 1986 i Kalifornien, är en prisbelönt författare och docent vid Cornell University i New York. Hon har skrivit romanerna You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine och Something New Under the Sun och novellsamlingen Intimations, samt publicerat texter i tidskrifter som New York Times, The New Yorker och The Paris Review.