Andorra - Softcover

Peter Cameron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312428715 ISBN 13: 9780312428716

Publisher: Picador USA, 2009

Synopsis

At the start of this novel, a man arrives in the tiny, mysterious nation of Andorra, having left behind his life in America after a terrible tragedy. The world he finds in La Plata, the capital city, is beautiful, enchanted, and somehow not quite real. As he meets the city's inhabitants - the ancient Mrs. Reinhardt, who outlives her lifetime lease on the penthouse in the city's grand hotel; Sophonsobia Quay, the kayaking matriarch of an Andorran dynasty; and the Dents, an Australian couple who share a first name, a gigantic dog, and a volatile secret - the mystery of his new home deepens. When a dead body appears in the harbour, everyone is a suspect, including our narrator. Soon enough we come to wonder how much of Andorra is real, and whom, if anyone, we can trust.

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Review:

"This marvelous mood piece about lying and truth telling, escape and discovery, and the weird calm at the heart of desperation." --The New Yorker

"Andorra does everything you want fiction to do--entertain, turn tricks, surge with unexpected feeling, send you transformed back into your life--but it does it with that delightfully un-American virtue, a light touch." --John Weir, The Village Voice

"Wonderful . . . Like so many good novels, Andorra ends badly for the characters but well for the reader. Mr. Cameron steers us through the final, fantastical events of Alex's story with an unfaltering hand." --Margot Livesey, The New York Times Book Review

"As eerily beautiful as it is laced with threat . . . Andorra is a revelation." --Michael Upchurch, San Francisco Chronicle

"Controlled, precise, pellucid, Mr. Cameron's prose brilliantly transmits the moment-by-moment feel of his protagonist's sojourn in a country that finally does not allow him to escape from himself." --Merle Rubin, The Wall Street Journal

About the Author:

PETER CAMERON is the author of several novels, including Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You and The Weekend. He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0312428715
• ISBN 13: 9780312428716
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272