Ultraluminous

One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017," a BOMB Magazine "Looking Back on 2017: Literature" Selection, and one of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017.

From Katherine Faw—the author of the critically-acclaimed Young God, longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize—comes Ultraluminous, a provocative and scintillating novel of one woman’s journey through a life of money, sex, and power.

Girlfriend. Prostitute. Addict. Terrorist? Who is K?

A high-end, girlfriend-experience prostitute called K has just returned to her native New York City, after more than a decade abroad in Dubai with a man she recalls as the Sheikh. She sets up a rotation of clients—all of them in finance, each with different delusions of how he is important to her—and makes time for a former Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan, whom she doesn’t charge.

Her days are strangely orderly: a repetition of dinners, personal grooming, museum exhibitions, sex, Duane Reades (she likes the sushi), cosmology, sex, gallery shows, nightclubs, heroin, sex, and art films. She finds the pattern substantiating, but does she really believe it’s sustainable? Or do the barely discernible rifts suggest a pattern within the pattern, a larger scheme she’s not showing us, a truth that won’t be revealed until we can see everything?

Una dintre „Cartile pe care le-am iubit din 2017 al New Yorkerului”, o revista BOMB „Privind inapoi in 2017: selectia de literatura” si una dintre cele mai bune 10 carti de thriller ale lui Vulture din 2017. De la Katherine Faw - autorul tanarului Dumnezeu, aclamat de critici , pe lista lunga pentru primul premiu de roman Flaherty-Dunnan - vine Ultraluminous, un roman provocator si sclipitor al calatoriei unei femei printr-o viata de bani, sex si putere. Prietena.