Impossible Views Of The World

A witty, urbane, and sometimes shocking debut novel, set in a hallowed New York museum, in which a co-worker's disappearance and a mysterious map change a life forever.

Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband (the perfectly awful Whit Ghiscolmbe) is stalking her, a workplace romance with "a fascinating, hyper-rational narcissist" is in freefall, and a beloved colleague, Paul, has gone missing. Strange things are afoot: CeMArt's current exhibit is sponsored by a Belgian multinational that wants to take over the world's water supply, she unwittingly stars in a viral video that's making the rounds, and her mother--the imperious, impossibly glamorous Caro--wants to have lunch. It's almost more than she can overanalyze.

But the appearance of a mysterious map, depicting a 19th-century utopian settlement, sends Stella--a dogged expert in American graphics and fluidomanie (don't ask)--on an all-consuming research mission. As she teases out the links between a haunting poem, several unusual novels, a counterfeiting scheme, and one of the museum's colorful early benefactors, she discovers the unbearable secret that Paul's been keeping, and charts a course out of the chaos of her own life.

Pulsing with neurotic humor and dagger-sharp prose, Impossible Views of the World is a dazzling debut novel about how to make it through your early thirties with your brain and heart intact.

Un roman de debut intelept, urban si uneori socant, situat intr-un muzeu sfant din New York, in care disparitia unui coleg de lucru si o harta misterioasa schimba o viata pentru totdeauna. Stella Krakus, curator la renumitul Muzeul Central de Arta din Manhattan, are cea mai grea saptamana din aproximativ vreodata. Fostul ei sot in curand (perfectul ingrozitor Whit Ghiscolmbe) o urmareste, o poveste de dragoste la locul de munca cu „un narcisist fascinant, hiper-rational” este in cadere libera, iar un iubit coleg, Paul, a disparut.