Explores the emotional aftermath of divorce through Sophie Blind's life for a nuanced understanding of family dynamics
Jumping narrative structure connects present-day New York to pre-WWII Budapest for a layered storytelling experience
Features a brilliant yet desperate protagonist grappling with personal and generational rifts
Lyrical and caustic prose captures the complexity of human relationships
First English-language republication of a work largely ignored at its original publication
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November 2020 selection of the NYRB Classics Book Club.
Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing, a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that runs right through the inner and outer worlds of Sophie Blind, its brilliant but desperate protagonist. Can the rift be mended? Perhaps in the form of a n
