Part detective novel,part love story,part psychoanalytic case study,Malina is a staggering portrait of a writer trying to tell her own story in a world dominated by men.
'I was subordinate to him from the beginning,and I must have known early on that he was destined to be my doom'
A woman in postwar Vienna walks a tightrope between the two men in her life. There is her lover Ivan,beautiful and unavailable,who obsesses her. And there is Malina,the civil servant with whom she shares an apartment: reserved,fastidious,exacting,chillingly calm. As the balance of power between them starts to shift,she feels her fragile identity unravelling,gradually revealing the dark,bruised heart of her past.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241366240Number of pages: 304Weight: 220 gDimensions: 196 x 130 x 20 mm
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'A portrait,in language,of female consciousness,truer than anything written since Sappho's Fragment 31. Once you're in,you're in...You're racing along,deep in the rhythms of the narrator's thoughts,which are bone-true and demonically intelligent.'- Rachel Kushner,author ofThe Mars Room
'If I was permitted to keep one book only it would be Malina. Malina has everything.'- Claire-Louise Bennett,author of Pond
'A writer of genius.'- The New York Times
'Rare and strong.'- Los Angeles Times
'It seems in Malina there is nothing Bachmann cannot do with words.'- New York Review of Books
'A passionate tour de force.'- Village Voice
'An intense,courageous novel,equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett.'-The New York Times
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