Crudo

Resumen del libro

Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It's the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart.

From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment just as Trump is tweeting the world into nuclear war. But it's not only Kathy who's changing. Political, social and natural landscapes are all in peril.

Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is hotting up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all. Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel in a brilliant, funny and emphatically raw account of love in the apocalypse.

A Goodbye to Berlin for the 21st century, Crudo charts in real time what it was like to live and love in the horrifying summer of 2017, from the perspective of a commitment-phobic peripatetic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker . . .

Biografía del autor

Olivia Laing es autora de tres obras de no ficción, El viaje a Echo Spring, La ciudad solitaria y To the River, que han sido traducidas a dieciocho idiomas y se han vendido más de 100.000 copias en todo el mundo. Su primera novela, Crudo, fue bestseller del Sunday Times y ganó el premio James Tait Memorial de 2019. Es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y en 2018 recibió el premio Windham-Campbell de no ficción. Laing escribe sobre arte y cultura para distintos medios, entre los que destacan The Guardian, The New York Times y Frieze. Su recopilación de escritos sobre arte, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, se publicó en 2020. Vive en Suffolk.