Intimacies: A NovelA NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE 2021 READS AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF 2021 FROM Washington Post, Vogue, Time, Oprah Daily, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic, Kirkus and Entertainment Weekly “Intimacies is a haunting, precise, and morally astute novel that reads like a psychological thriller…. Katie Kitamura is a wonder.” —Dana Spiotta, author of Wayward and Eat the Document “One of the best novels I’ve read in 2021.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times A novel from the author of A Separation, an electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime the interpreter becomes increasingly obsessed with as she befriends the victim's sister. And she's pulled into an explosive political controversy when she’s asked to interpret for a former president accused of war crimes. A woman of quiet passion, she confronts power, love, and violence, both in her personal intimacies and in her work at the Court. She is soon pushed to the precipice, where betrayal and heartbreak threaten to overwhelm her, forcing her to decide what she wants from her life. |
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User Review - yarb - LibraryThingProse without a single distinguishing characteristic, almost aggressively bland and unchallenging, except for the tsunami of comma splices — seemingly the only form of punctuation known to the author ... Read full review
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User Review - nivramkoorb - LibraryThingKatie Kitamura seems to be an author that the critics love. This book was given good reviews so I thought I would try it. The unnamed narrator is a translator for the world court in The Hague ... Read full review
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 9 |
Section 3 | 29 |
Section 4 | 45 |
Section 5 | 55 |
Section 6 | 71 |
Section 7 | 83 |
Section 8 | 95 |
Section 10 | 123 |
Section 11 | 141 |
Section 12 | 151 |
Section 13 | 173 |
Section 14 | 187 |
Section 15 | 199 |
Section 16 | 209 |
Section 17 | 227 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Intimacies: A Novel |
| Author | Katie Kitamura |
| Publisher | Penguin, 2021 |
| ISBN | 0399576169, 9780399576164 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Literary Fiction / Psychological Fiction / Women |
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