Sympathy

by Olivia Sudjic

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THE DEBUT OF 2017THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT FROM ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS

'A gripping odyssey into one woman's online-addled inner life' -- Independent

'Reads likeThe Talented Mr Ripley for the 21st century' --Vice UK


At twenty-three, AliceHare arrives in New York looking for a place to call home. Instead she finds Mizuko Himura, an intriguing Japanese writer, who she begins to follow online,fixated from afar and increasingly convinced this stranger's life holds a mirror to her own. But as Alice closes in on her 'internet twin', fictional and real lives begin to blur, leaving a tangle of lies, blood ties and sexual encounters that cannot be erased.
  • ISBN10 0993506267
  • ISBN13 9780993506260
  • Publish Date 26 April 2018 (first published 4 April 2017)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pushkin Press
  • Imprint ONE
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 416
  • Language English