Sympathy, Olivia Sudjic
Sympathy, Olivia Sudjic
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Sympathy

Author: Olivia Sudjic

Narrator: Gemma Dawson

Unabridged: 13 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2017


Synopsis

At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. Blinded by the city lights, Alice becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, a Japanese writer living in New York, whose life story has strange parallels to her own and whom she believes is her "internet twin." What seems to Mizuko like a chance encounter with Alice is anything but—after all, in the age of connectivity, nothing is coincidence. Their subsequent relationship is doomed from the outset, exposing a tangle of lies and sexual encounters as three families across the globe collide, and the most ancient of questions—where do we come from—is answered just by searching online.

In its heady evocation of everything from Haruki Murakami to Patricia Highsmith to Edith Wharton, Sympathy is utterly original—a thrilling tale of obsession, doubling, blood ties, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age.

About Olivia Sudjic

Olivia Sudjic was born in London in 1988. She studied English Literature at Cambridge University where she was awarded the E.G. Harwood English Prize and made a Bateman Scholar. She started writing her first novel, Sympathy, in 2014.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Blair on April 09, 2017

A quarter of the way into this 400-page debut, we know that our narrator is an eccentric philosophy graduate named Alice Hare. We know that she was adopted; that her birth mother died when she was a baby, and her birth father was/is in prison; that she has a strained relationship with her adoptive m......more

Goodreads review by Chloé on April 05, 2017

I was asked to blurb this book but used the word 'mindfuck' in my blurb which apparently isn't kosher so I'll say it here. A COMPLETE MINDFUCK. Sort of suffocating. Thorough. Dark. As SNP says, "not for everyone, meaning it's for people who take great joy in telling you it's 'not for everyone'". Cou......more

Goodreads review by Shawn on May 22, 2017

I am always trying new stuff and often bailing. I second-guess myself: should I just stick to writers I like, writers closer to my own age? No way. This debut by Sudjic, 29, is one of the most exciting novels I've ever read. A tale of smartphones and anomie, adoption and obsession, being biracial an......more

Goodreads review by Jano on June 21, 2019

Reseña completa: [URL not allowed] Etiquetar a este libro en un único género sería algo bastante complicado. Podría decir que es lo más cercano a un thriller psicólogo; un libro de ficción independiente muy inquietante centrado en la obsesión y en la enfermedad mental que no de......more

Goodreads review by Becky on March 29, 2017

Meh. A rambling read that jumps back and forth through time as the main character outlines her obsession with an author in New York City. I should add, my rating here is mostly because it wasn't a good fit for me. I came upon this one after hearing a review that led me to believe it would be right up......more