The End of Getting Lost
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Margaret Qualley and Paul Mescal!
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Margaret Qualley and Paul Mescal!
A young woman and her husband travel around Europe to celebrate their first year of marriage-a year that the woman has no memory of-in this "wildly beautiful and darkly sinister" (Rosamund Lupton, New York Times bestselling author of Sister) novel of intimacy and deceit.
A young woman and her husband travel around Europe to celebrate their first year of marriage-a year that the woman has no memory of-in this "wildly beautiful and darkly sinister" (Rosamund Lupton, New York Times bestselling author of Sister) novel of intimacy and deceit.
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Margaret Qualley and Paul Mescal!A young woman and her husband travel around Europe to celebrate their first year of marriage-a year that the woman has no memory of-in this "wildly beautiful and darkly sinister" (Rosamund Lupton, New York Times bestselling author of Sister) novel of intimacy and deceit.
The year is 1996-a time before cell phones, status updates, and location tags-when you could still travel to a remote corner of the world and disappear. This is where we meet Gina and Duncan, a young couple madly in love, traveling around Europe on a romantic adventure. It's a time both thrilling and dizzying for Gina, whose memories are hazy following a head injury-and the growing sense that the man at her side is keeping secrets from her.
Just what is Duncan hiding and how far will he go to keep their pasts at bay? As the pair hop borders across Europe, their former lives threatening to catch up with them while the truth grows more elusive, we witness how love can lead us astray, and what it means to lose oneself in love.
The End of Getting Lost is a tightrope act of deception and an elegant exploration of love and marriage-as well as our cherished illisions of both. With notes of Patricia Highsmith, Caroline Kepnes, and Lauren Groff, Robin Kirman has spun an "atmospheric, lyrical" (Susie Yang, New York Times bestselling author of White Ivy) tale of deceit, redemption, and the fight to keep love alive-no matter the costs.
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Chapter One: Gina // Lake Walen One Gina // Lake Walen June 1996
It was the end of getting lost-a moment when travel could still feel like taking leave of the familiar, before there were ten different means for a person to be reached in almost any corner of the world in which she might be standing, when letters and postcards would still follow slowly on the heels of a young couple moving across Europe, and two people in love could escape their old reality a little, experiencing the world before them like a shared dream.
The year was 1996, the month June, when Gina and Duncan arrived at the Walensee, a lake less than an hour's drive from the clinic near Zurich where she had spent the past two weeks. She'd come there to recuperate from a head injury she'd suffered from a bad fall in Berlin. The injury hadn't been a small one, rehabilitation was required, but now that Gina was well enough to do without doctors and nurses, she and Duncan had escaped to the Swiss countryside. The scenery around Lake Walen was possibly the loveliest and most peaceful that she had ever seen: small villages of white, red-roofed houses, lush fields of wildflowers and, across the still, blue water, green mountains topped with milky clouds. They'd spent three days there in a small guesthouse, hiking and biking among the villages, or boating on the lake. Duncan didn't usually swim, and the lake water was cold, but Gina liked to jump in anyway in the hours when the sun was strongest. After she'd tired herself with laps, and as the light began to weaken, she'd leave the water to go inside and dress, and then they'd bring their chairs down to the grassy banks to take in the sky and lake, lit pink and gold by the setting sun.
During this quiet hour, Duncan, who was a classical composer, listened to music with headphones on his Discman, and, beside him, Gina read-Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, which Duncan had bought her that week as a gift. He'd been aware a Zurich clinic featured
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in the story, otherwise under the impression that it was a romance about a glamorous American couple traveling in Europe. The day after Duncan gave Gina the book, her doctor at the clinic had remarked on the Swiss sanatorium, and Gina had been forced to tell Duncan that it wasn't a happy story, that the wife in the novel was mentally ill.
"Oh God, forget it, then," Duncan had pleaded, but she'd made clear that reading it didn't upset her. On the contrary, it soothed her to return to a novel that she'd read before and remembered-in better detail than she possessed regarding her own recent life.
In the last weeks, Gina had often felt like she was crazy-though the doctors in the hospital in West Berlin and at the Zurich clinic had made clear that what she'd experienced was entirely a physical trauma. She'd suffered a concussion and intracranial swelling, and no one could predict what sort of recovery she'd make. The consensus by the end was that she'd been lucky. Her sight and hearing were normal and she had no speech difficulties, no aphasia. Her mind was sharp, her reasoning was good, and her moods were stable. Her dizzy spells were now gone, her balance and motor coordination perfectly restored. In fact, only two weeks after her injury, she was taking runs through the Swiss woods.
The only significant loss in functioning involved her memory. She couldn't recall anything of the accident or of the months leading up to her trip. Beyond that, there were stretches of experience that remained missing, which she didn't know she missed-her dance performances that year, the departure from New York of their two close friends-until Duncan would refer to these and nothing would come to mind.
At the same time, there w
"Oh God, forget it, then," Duncan had pleaded, but she'd made clear that reading it didn't upset her. On the contrary, it soothed her to return to a novel that she'd read before and remembered-in better detail than she possessed regarding her own recent life.
In the last weeks, Gina had often felt like she was crazy-though the doctors in the hospital in West Berlin and at the Zurich clinic had made clear that what she'd experienced was entirely a physical trauma. She'd suffered a concussion and intracranial swelling, and no one could predict what sort of recovery she'd make. The consensus by the end was that she'd been lucky. Her sight and hearing were normal and she had no speech difficulties, no aphasia. Her mind was sharp, her reasoning was good, and her moods were stable. Her dizzy spells were now gone, her balance and motor coordination perfectly restored. In fact, only two weeks after her injury, she was taking runs through the Swiss woods.
The only significant loss in functioning involved her memory. She couldn't recall anything of the accident or of the months leading up to her trip. Beyond that, there were stretches of experience that remained missing, which she didn't know she missed-her dance performances that year, the departure from New York of their two close friends-until Duncan would refer to these and nothing would come to mind.
At the same time, there w
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Autoren-Porträt von Robin Kirman
Robin Kirman studied philosophy at Yale before receiving her MFA in writing from Columbia, where she also taught for several years. Her curiosity about human psychology has led her to combine work in psychoanalysis with writing fiction. Her first novel, Bradstreet Gate, was published in 2015, and her television series The Love Wave is currently in development.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robin Kirman
- 2023, 288 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 21,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster US
- ISBN-10: 1982159863
- ISBN-13: 9781982159863
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.04.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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