Sympathy

An electrifying novel of blood ties, online identities, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age.

At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She falls in love with Manhattan, and becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, an intriguing Japanese writer whose life has strange parallels to her own.

As Alice closes in on Mizuko, her ‘internet twin’, realities multiply and fact and fiction begin to blur. The relationship between the two women exposes a tangle of lies and sexual encounters. Three families collide as Alice learns that the swiftest answer to an ancient question – where do we come from? – can now be found online.

Un roman electrizant de legaturi de sange, identitati online si eforturile noastre chinuite de a ne conecta in era digitala. La douazeci si trei de ani, Alice Hare pleaca din Anglia spre New York. Se indragosteste de Manhattan si se fixeaza pe Mizuko Himura, un scriitor japonez intrigant, a carui viata are paralele ciudate cu ale ei. Pe masura ce Alice se apropie de Mizuko, „gemenele ei de internet”, realitatile se inmultesc si faptele si fictiunea incep sa se estompeze.