Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 2010.
A novel about old age and loneliness and perhaps not the cheeriest of books but Brookner exposes the main character’s vulnerability in an eloquent and moving way. A thought provoking read.
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'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances of the here and now'. Paul Sturgis is retired and lives alone in South Kensington. He walks alone and dines alone, taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers. His only acquaintance is a widowed cousin whom he visits on Sundays. Unable to make sense of his solitary nature, and fearing death among strangers, he wonders whether at last he might be ready for companionship. But a chance meeting with an old girlfriend and an encounter in Venice with a recently divorced younger woman compel Sturgis to decide how (and with whom) he will spend the rest of his days...
Strangers features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Strangers is available in Paperback, Ebook
Strangers was written by Anita Brookner and published by Penguin Books Ltd
Strangers has 201 pages
£9.89
