Synopsis
In the darkly comic novel The Believers, Zoë Heller, author of Notes on a Scandal, explores a family pushed to its limits.
When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radial lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty- year marriage. Joel’s children will soon have to come to terms with this unsettling secret themselves, but for the meantime, they are trying tot cope with their own dilemmas.
Rosa, a disillusioned revolutionary, is grappling with a new found attachment to Orthodox Judasism. Karla, an unhappily married social worker, is falling in love with an unlikely suitor at the hospital where she works. Adopted brother Lenny is back on drugs again.
In the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to decide what – if anything – they still believe in.
‘One of the outstanding novels of the year’ Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
‘One of only two British novelists whose work you wouldn’t want to miss’ David Hare, Guardian, Books of the Year
‘A dark beautiful drama. Heller has got the stuff we look for in our best novelists: the sentences, the constant drift towards truth’ Joseph O’Neill, Guardian, Books of the Year
Zoë Heller has written three darkly comic novels: The Believers, Notes on a Scandal (shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize) and Everything You Know. The 2006 film adaptation of her bestselling novel Notes on a Scandal, starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench, received four Oscar nominations.
» Read the prologue and first chapter of The Believers by downloading the Penguin Taster here
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780141024677
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 320
Published : 30 Apr 2009
Publisher : Fig Tree
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