Desfile - by Rachel Cusk (Paperback)

About the Book

Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas. At the age of twenty-two, the painter G leaves home for a new life in another country, far from the disapproval of her parents. Her paintings attract the disapproval of the man she later marries. When a mother dies, her children confront her legacy: the stories she told, the roles she assigned to them, the ways she withheld her love. Her death is a kind of freedom. Parade is a novel that demolishes the conventions of storytelling. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot to tell the story of G, an artist whose life contains many lives. Rachel Cusk is a writer and visionary like no other, who turns language upside down to show us our world as it really is.

About the Author

Rachel Cusk es la autora de Segunda casa (premio Fémina de novela extranjera), de la trilogía de novelas A contraluz (A contraluz, Tránsito y Prestigio), de los libros de memorias Un trabajo para toda la vida y Despojos, y de varias obras de ficción y no ficción, incluida su novela más reciente, Desfile (premio Goldsmiths, 2024). Ha recibido una beca Guggenheim y en 2024 ha sido galardonada con el premio Malaparte y con el título de Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres. Vive en París.