Gone to the Forest

Resumen del libro

This is a gripping and psychologically intense novel about the destruction of a family a farm, and a way of life. Set on a struggling farm in a fiercely beautiful colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war, this second novel by one of international literature's rising young stars weaves a brilliant tale of family drama and political turmoil. Since his mother's death ten years earlier, Tom and his father have fashioned a strained peace on their family farm.

Everything is frozen under the old man's vicious, relentless control - even, Tom soon discovers, his own future. When a young woman named Carine enters their lives, the complex triangle of intrigue and affection escalates the tension between the two men to the breaking point. After a catastrophic volcanic eruption ignites the nation's smoldering discontent into open revolution, Tom, his father, and Carine find themselves questioning their loyalties with one another and their determination to salvage their way of life.

Biografía del autor

KATIE KITAMURA nació en 1979 y pasó su infancia y su juventud entre Japón y California. Reside en Nueva York, y en 2009 publicó The Longshot, finalista del Premio New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction. Ha trabajado como consultora creativa para The Pervert's Guide To Cinema, la tercera parte de la serie documental realizada para Channel 4 por el filósofo y psicoanalista Slavoj i ek. Además, ha escrito para importantes medios de comunicación, como The Guardian, The New York Times y Wired, y es colaboradora habitual en Frieze y Art Monthly