Heart the Lover
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- 15,99 €
Publisher Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME Magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Harper's Baazar, NPR, Vogue, Oprah Daily, People Magazine, USA TODAY, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, Kirkus Review, BookPage, Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, PEN America, Chicago Public Library
“Lily King has written another masterpiece. This book overflows with her brilliance and her heart. We are so lucky.” —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow
From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love
You knew I’d write a book about you someday.
Our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules.
In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. But youthful passion is unpredictable, and soon she finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.
Decades later, the vulnerable days of Jordan's youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news bring the past crashing into the present, she returns to a world she left behind and must confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.
Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, Heart the Lover is a deeply moving love story that celebrates literature, forgiveness, and the transformative bonds that shape our lives. Wise, unforgettable, and with a delightful connective thread to Writers & Lovers, this is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A woman feels the long-lasting and painful impact of her college romances in this poignant work of literary fiction. The unnamed narrator—nicknamed Daisy and later Jordan, both references to The Great Gatsby—meets Sam and Yash in her 17th-century-literature class. After becoming fast friends, she ends up dating Sam but comes to realize she is in love with Yash. The novel deliciously focuses in on small details of Jordan’s senior year before hurtling through the next few decades, when tragedies unfurl and mistakes are made. Lily King’s cinematically gorgeous writing had us completely hooked. She’s a master at writing with tender insight and sharp wit about people and relationships, bringing us tangible and flawed characters we wanted to simultaneously yell at and give a big hug to. Fans of Sally Rooney’s intimate, character-driven novels will adore this musing on the choices we make when we’re young and their effects—good and bad—on the rest of our lives.
