Asunder (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780544309845)

Marie's job as a guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors of the Gallery surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belies their own fragility. There also lingers the legacy of her great-grandfather Ted, the museum guard who slipped and fell moments before reaching the suffragette Mary Richardson as she took a blade to one of the gallery's masterpieces on the eve of the First World War.

After nine years there, Marie begins to feel the tug of restlessness. A decisive change comes in the form of a winter trip to Paris, where, with the arrival of an uninvited guest and an unexpected encounter, her carefully contained world is torn open.

Asunder is a rich, resonant novel of beguiling depths and beautiful strangeness, exploring the delicate balance between creation and destruction, control and surrender.

Author: Chloe Aridjis
ISBN-10: 0544309847
ISBN-13: 9780544309845
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2013
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d