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The Emigré glitters with refracted light from the world of the social élite into whose affections Nikolas inveigles himself in London, Paris, Switzerland and the United States. Brady's sparse prose is as refreshing and rare as the Beluga caviar that is a recurrent narrative motif, writing that sharply condenses a vision of the declining European aristocracy in a century that has outlived it. Posed with equal precision is the novel's preoccupying question about the relationship between talent and economic privilege: "Performers have always come in two parts: talent and money. Maybe the proportions vary, but the one is no good without the other. Which is to say that, one way or another, any devil's gift must cover both."
This is Brady's fourth novel. The Theory of War-- for which she won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1993--and Death Comes For Peter Pan established her reputation for brilliant, elegaic writing on traumatic histories. Equally accomplished, the metronome of Brady's writing in The Emigré is set to the different beat of insightful comedy that every so often exceeds beyond perfect timing into extraordinary evocations of desire and human ambition. --Rachel Holmes
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