![]() ![]() 'Kudos is one of the most astoundingly original and necessary books I've ever read. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, and practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss. ![]() ![]() The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. ![]()
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