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    The Unloved

    By Deborah Levy

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    The image is instant. It whirs out of the camera and they all watch it develop in silence.
    "Here." He gives the photograph to the perfect flawless woman without looking at it, by way of apology. When everyone gathers around Luciana to admire it, Gustav clicks again.
    The unloved look brave.
    The unloved look heavier than the loved. Their eyes are sadder but their thoughts are clearer. They are not concerned with pleasing or affirming their loved one's point of view.
    The unloved look preoccupied.
    The unloved look impatient.

    A group of hedonistic tourists--from Algeria, England, Poland, Germany, Italy, France, and America--gathers to celebrate the holidays in a remote French chateau. Then a woman is brutally murdered, and the sad, eerie child Tatiana declares she knows who did it. The subsequent inquiry into the death, however, proves to be more of an investigation into the nature of identity, love, insatiable rage, and sadistic desire. The Unloved offers a bold and revealing look at some of the events that shaped European and African history, and the perils of a future founded on concealed truth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury USA
    Release dateMar 3, 2015
    ISBN9781620406786
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    Deborah Levy

    Deborah Levy (Johannesburgo, 1959) es una novelis­ta, poeta y dramaturga británica, que ha sido llevada a escena por la Royal Shakespeare Company. Entre sus libros destacan Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, The Unloved y Swimming Home and Other Stories, que fue finalista de, entre otros pre­mios, el Man Booker en 2012. Con Leche caliente quedó finalista de los premios Man Booker y Goldsmiths en 2016. Foto © Sheila Burnett

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    • 3/5
      An early Levy novel that offers a fascinating insight into the development that reached fruition with Swimming Home and Hot Milk. Like Swimming Home much of this book takes place in a holiday house with a rather odd collection of guests - this time a chateau in Normandy. Each of the characters represents a nation, and Levy deliberately confuses things by switching between their names and nationalities. The middle part is set in Algeria in the late 50s. The atmosphere is creepy and dreamlike, full of symbolism and striking imagery but at times difficult to follow. I won't pretend I didn't find this a little frustrating but it was definitely worth reading.
    • 2/5
      Sometimes a book hangs out so long on your TBR that you forget why it's on there. That's the case with this one. I honestly don't know why I had a European Clue-esque mystery with hateful characters on my TBR list. But I did. And I read it.