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Una mujer viaja a Grecia tras los pasos de su marido desaparecido. La pareja hab a decidido separarse, y ella deambula ahora por una regi n remota al sur del Peloponeso sin estar segura de querer encontrarle. Esta inquietante novela de suspense psicol gico nos sit a en un paisaje salvaje y est ril arrasado por una oleada de incendios, una tierra quemada por donde la protagonista rastrear los fracasos de su relaci n para descubrir que apenas conoce al hombre que una vez am . En esta especie de limbo emocional, Kitamura despliega con exquisita precisi n el descenso de una mujer a los infiernos.

Feroz e hipn tica, la historia combina el misterio con la introspecci n para diseccionar las emociones que emanan de una separaci n. La pena, el odio y el deseo se mezclan en una protagonista que deber asimilar las revelaciones sobre lo que un d a fue su vida conyugal. Por medio de una prosa intensa y perturbadora se mezclan el ambiente hitchcockiano y la tensi n de los thrillers de Patricia Highsmith.

Kitamura firma una obra maestra sobre la infidelidad, el impulso de conservar y la necesidad de dejar ir; una novela fr a y de combusti n lenta que se lee con avidez y resuena durante largo tiempo.

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

Named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Refinery29, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, NYLON, BookRiot.

"Kitamura's prose gallops, combining Elena Ferrante-style intricacies with the tensions of a top-notch whodunit." --Elle

This is her story. About the end of her marriage. About what happened when Christopher went missing and she went to find him. These are her secrets, this is what happened...

A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go look for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. As her search comes to a shocking breaking point, she discovers she understands less than she thought she did about her relationship and the man she used to love.

A searing, suspenseful story of intimacy and infidelity, A Separation lays bare what divides us from the inner lives of others. With exquisitely cool precision, Katie Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on edge, with a fiercely mesmerizing story to tell.