The Friend

Now a Pedro Almodóvar film - THE ROOM NEXT DOOR - starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore<BR><BR>'I was totally overwhelmed by this extraordinary novel. A total joy - and laugh-out-loud funny' DEBORAH MOGGACH<BR><BR>The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of THE FRIEND brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship. <BR><BR>The woman at the heart of this extraordinary novel finds that everyone she meets has a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience for their experiences. And so she tries to pay attention, to imagine and listen to what those around her are going through. But then an old friend makes an extraordinary request and draws her into an intense and transformative experience of her own.<BR><BR>'I just adore Sigrid Nunez' PAULA HAWKINS<BR><BR>'Brilliant. I loved it as much as The Friend' SUSIE STEINER<BR><BR>'When I open one of [Sigrid Nunez's] novels, I almost always know immediately: This is where I want to be ... As good as The Friend, if not better' NEW YORK TIMES<BR><BR>'A true pleasure to read, a novel bursting with wit, warmth, and human empathy' INDEPENDENT<BR><BR>'Brilliant ... The narrative control of this novel simply dazzles' SPECTATOR

Von der Autorin des Bestsellers 'Der Freund' erscheinen jetzt die autobiographischen Erinnerungen an ihre Zeit mit Susan Sontag 'Sigrid Nunez liefert das bis heute lebendigste und schillerndste Porträt von Susan Sontag.' Vogue Frühling 1976 in New York City: Sigrid Nunez, gerade mal 25 Jahre alt, träumt davon, Schriftstellerin zu werden, als Bob Silvers von der "New York Review of Books" ihr einen Job vermittelt: Sie soll einer bekannten Autorin, die ein paar Straßenecken weiter auf der Upper Westside wohnt, bei der Korrespondenz helfen. Wenig später sitzt Nunez am Küchentisch von Susan Sontag und tippt auf deren Schreibmaschine, was Susan ihr diktiert. Sie lernt die glamouröse Denkerin aus nächster Nähe kennen, verliebt sich in deren Sohn David und zieht schließlich bei den beiden ein. Ein Erinnerungsbuch, in dem Sigrid Nunez über die vielleicht prägendste Begegnung ihres Lebens schreibt und ein privates, nuanciertes Porträt von Susan Sontag entsteht.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, LA TIMES AND BOSTON GLOBE - AND ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS FOR 2026 The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend'Wryly funny and slyly provocative' DAILY MAIL'Sigrid Nunez creates whole lives in fewer than 20 pages' JOHN SELF, THE TIMES'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' ANNE ENRIGHT It Will Come Back to You takes in thirteen stories - never before collected together - from a career spanning three decades, which has seen Nunez become one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices. Moving from an inappropriate teenage crush to a therapist's second chance at love, in this collection Nunez maintains her irrepressible humour, bite, and insight, while exploring the philosophical questions we have come to expect from her writing.'Among the most interesting writers of our generation' INDEPENDENT'It Will Come Back to You should make you want to imbibe every word Nunez has ever written' TLS'A strange, perceptive and unsettling look at the lives of ordinary people' FINANCIAL TIMES'One of American fiction's most crisp and realized voices. Like the food in a good restaurant, her prose is excellent but unfussy' NEW YORK TIMES 'Nunez injects these stories with a deep tenderness and a wry sense of humor, all the while challenging our conceptions of what it means to live an ordinary life' HARPERS BAZAAR, 'Best Summer Books 2026' 'Nunez [has] a no-nonsense honesty, a matchless intelligence, an unswerving empathy, and a breathtaking intimacy of voice' JENNY MUSTARD'One of the great writers of our time . . . Reading [Nunez's] work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend' LOS ANGELES TIMES'The stories show [Nunez's] gift for turning apparently ordinary lives into something stranger, funnier and more searching than they first appear' iPAPER, 'The best new books to read in July 2026' 'Long live Sigrid Nunez' LAURA MARLING'Nunez [has] a no-nonsense honesty, a matchless intelligence, an unswerving empathy, and a breathtaking intimacy of voice' JENNY MUSTARD 'One of the great writers of our time . . . Reading [Nunez's] work feels like having lunch with your smartest, wisest, most empathetic friend' LOS ANGELES TIMES 'A treat' OPRAH DAILY, 'Best Books of the Summer 2026' 'There are two kinds of people in the world, people who haven't read Sigrid Nunez, and people who love Sigrid Nunez' CLAIRE KOHDA 'Wonderful . . . Her uncertain protagonists in an uncertain world are the perfect literary creations: vexed in their own lives but delightful to encounter' BIDISHA

Der neue Roman der Bestseller-Autorin von 'Der Freund''Eine begnadete Schriftstellerin.' DER SPIEGEL'Voller Geistesgegenwart und Zärtlichkeit.' PEOPLE'Man folgt ihr gespannt bis zur letzten Seite und fühlt sich auf eine sehr zivilisierte Weise getröstet.' JOHANNA ADORJÁN'Liebe, Verlust, Freundschaft, Empathie - und so viel Weisheit. Ich verehre Sigrid Nunez.' PAULA HAWKINS'Ein profundes Buch.' THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Ein warmherziges Trostbuch über die Kunst zu leben und zu sterben.' DEUTSCHLANDFUNK'Der Roman hat auf seine leise, anmutige, angenehm kluge Art eine tief tröstliche Wirkung.' NDR'Ein hoffnungslos heiterer Roman, der ganz leicht und schwerelos die schweren Fragen Abschied und Tod und das Ende aller Dinge verhandelt.' SIGRID LÖFFLER'Ein anmutiger Roman.' THE NEW YORKER'Ein überwältigendes Trost- und Lebensbuch.... Nunez ist eine Magierin, ihr Buch so wunderbar licht und heiter. ' PETER HENNING, SR2 KULTURKaum jemand durchdringt das, was es heißt, am Leben zu sein, tiefer, als die amerikanische Autorin Sigrid Nunez. In ihrem neuen Roman 'Was fehlt dir' schreibt sie darüber, wie wir einander verbunden sind, in Glück und Trauer, Trost und Zuversicht - und wie Mitgefühl unsere Sicht aufs Leben verändern kann. Was hat das Schicksal anderer Menschen mit dem eigenen zu tun? Die New Yorker Erzählerin in Sigrid Nunez' neuem Roman findet Antworten auf diese Frage in der Begegnung mit ganz unterschiedlichen Menschen, ihrer Traurigkeit, ihrem Mut, ihrer Zuversicht: Ob mit einer verflossenen Liebe, einer verunsicherten Airbnb-Gastgeberin oder einer Jugendfreundin, die unheilbar krank ist und sie um einen großen Gefallen bittet. 'Was fehlt dir' ist ein Buch über das emphatische Einfühlen und darüber, dass wir viel mehr füreinander tun können, als wir vielleicht meinen: indem wir genau hinhören. Ein Roman, der zugleich ein Porträt davon liefert, was es heißt, gerade jetzt am Leben zu sein. Poetisch und federleicht, ein Buch, das Hoffnung macht - und große Freude.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER <BR><BR>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, VOGUE, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICE, THE IRISH TIMES, NEW REPUBLIC AND KIRKUS REVIEWS<BR><BR>“I am committed, until one of us dies, to Nunez’s novels. I find them ideal. They are short, wise, provocative, funny — good and strong company.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times<BR><BR>“With the intimacy and humor of a great conversation, this novel makes you feel smarter and more alive.” —People Magazine<BR><BR>The New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and It Will Come Back to You brings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection<BR><BR>Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.<BR><BR>Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another’s distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, Nunez’s new novel is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself.

An intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf - and their pet marmoset monkey called Mitz - from the National Book Award-winning author of THE FRIEND 'A perfect little gem of a book' NIGEL NICOLSON 'Nunez takes us beneath the surface to the essential mysteries of the human heart' WALL STREET JOURNALIn 1934, a 'sickly pathetic marmoset' came into the care of Leonard Woolf. After he nursed her back to health, Mitz became a ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society. Moving with Leonard and Virginia Woolf between London and Sussex, she developed her own special relationship with each of them, as well as with their cocker spaniels - and with various members of the Woolfs' circle, among them T. S. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West. This tender and imaginative mock biography offers a striking look at the lives of writers and artists shadowed by war, death, and mental breakdown, and at the solace and amusement inspired by its tiny subject. 'A wry, supremely intelligent literary gem about devotion - to writing, to other people, and between humans and their pets' NPR 'At its very best the book takes on the edginess of Mrs. Dalloway' CHICAGO TRIBUNE'In plumbing the mysterious affections between species, it comes to represent the solace and fragility of human relations more generally' PARIS REVIEWWinner of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS AND BILL MURRAY<BR><BR>ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST 100 BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY<BR>WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD<BR><BR>'A true delight: I genuinely fear I won't read a better novel this year' FINANCIAL TIMES<BR><BR>'Loved this. A funny, moving examination of love, grief, and the uniqueness of dogs' GRAHAM NORTON<BR><BR>'Delicious' SUNDAY TIMES 100 BEST SUMMER READS<BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.<BR><BR>Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unravelling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.<BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>'Very, very clever. Mature. Entertaining. Eminently readable and re-readable. Absolutely delightful' IRISH TIMES<BR><BR>'I loved it . . . It's one of my favourite books and it moved me' WHOOPI GOLDBERG<BR><BR>'A perfect novel . . . It's my favorite kind of masterpiece - one you can put into anyone's hand' EMMA STRAUB<BR><BR>A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * A Financial Times 2018 Best Book: Critics Pick * A Buzzfeed Best Book of 2018 * A Bustle Best Fiction Book of 2018 * An NPR Best Book of 2018

This "tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society" (The New York Times) is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf from a National Book Award-winning author.<BR><BR>In 1934, a "sickly pathetic marmoset” named Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf. After he nursed her back to health, she became a ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society. Moving with Leonard and Virginia Woolf between their homes in London and Sussex, she developed her own special relationship with each of them, as well as with their pet cocker spaniels and with various members of the Woolfs’ circle, among them T. S. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West. Mitz also helped the Woolfs escape a close call with Nazis during a trip through Germany just before the outbreak of World War II. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, and other archival documents, Nunez reconstructs Mitz’s life against the background of Bloomsbury’s twilight years. This tender and imaginative mock biography offers a striking look at the lives of writers and artists shadowed by war, death, and mental breakdown, and at the solace and amusement inspired by its tiny subject--and this new edition includes an afterword by Peter Cameron and a never-before-published letter about Mitz by Nigel Nicolson.<BR><BR>“In short, glistening sentences that refract the larger world, Ms. Nunez describes the appealingly eccentric, fiercely intelligent Woolfs during a darkening time.” —The Wall Street Journal