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Asylum Road
2021
First Published
3.59
Average Rating
256
Number of Pages

The taut, knife-sharp, compulsive second novel by the critically-acclaimed author Olivia Sudjic, for fans of FIRST LOVE, DAYS OF ABANDONMENT and HOT MILK A couple drive from London to coastal Provence. Anya is preoccupied with what she feels is a relationship on the verge; unequal, precarious. Luke, reserved, stoic, gives away nothing. As the sun sets one evening, he proposes, and they return to London engaged. But planning a wedding does little to settle Anya’s unease. As a child, she escaped from Sarajevo, and the idea of security is as alien now as it was then. When social convention forces Anya to return, she begins to change. The past she sought to contain for as long as she can remember resurfaces, and the hot summer builds to a startling climax. Lean, sly and unsettling, Asylum Road is about the many borders governing our lives: between men and women, assimilation and otherness, nations, families, order and chaos. What happens, and who do we become, when they break down?

Avg Rating
3.59
Number of Ratings
1,714
5 STARS
16%
4 STARS
40%
3 STARS
33%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
2%
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Author

Olivia Sudjic
Olivia Sudjic
Author · 4 books
Olivia Sudjic was born in 1988 in London. She studied English Literature at Cambridge University where she was awarded the E.G. Harwood English Prize and made a Bateman Scholar. Her debut novel, ‘Sympathy’, will be published in 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (USA/Canada), ONE (UK), Kein & Aber (Germany), Minimum Fax (Italy) and Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca (Poland). She is one of The Observer’s ‘New Faces of Fiction’ for 2017.
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