Topics of Conversation

A compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill.

Composed almost exclusively of conversations between women--the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves, about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage--Topics of Conversation careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. Touching upon desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, and guilt; written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism, this novel introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist.

Un tur de forta compact despre sex, violenta si dispretuire de sine de la o noua voce feroce de talentata in fictiune, perfect pentru fanii lui Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis si Jenny Offill. Compus aproape exclusiv din conversatii intre femei - povestile pe care si le spun una alteia si povestile pe care le spun ei insisi, despre rusine si dragoste, infidelitate si autosabotaj - Subiectele de conversatie se desfasoara de-a lungul a douazeci de ani din viata unui narator fara nume, flamand. pentru experienta si aplecat sa-i schimbe viata.