Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belie their own fragility. There also lingers the legacy of her great-grandfather Ted, the warder who slipped and fell moments before reaching the suffragette Mary Richardson as she took a blade to one of the gallery's masterpieces on the eve of the First World War.
After nine years there, Marie begins to feel the tug of restlessness. A decisive change comes in the form of a winter trip to Paris, where, with the arrival of an uninvited guest and an unexpected encounter, her carefully contained world is torn apart.
| ISBN: | 9780099572756 |
| Publication date: | 6th November 2014 |
| Author: | Chloe Aridjis |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Exhibition catalogues and specific collections |
Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belie their own fragility.
Asunder features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections
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Asunder was written by Chloe Aridjis and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Asunder has 192 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.