Product Description: “The narrator of [Lurid & Cute] may be Thirlwell’s best creation yet.”―Andrew Ervin, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Lurid & Cute is a simple story of mayhem and ennui, almost a caper, but told with such satisfying ironies and verbal dexterity that everything is Technicolor again...read more

Product Description: El brillante escritor ingles nos invita a participar de sus ingeniosas ideas y pensamientos sobre el devenir de la novela, los entresijos de las traducciones y el placer de leer y de vivir. En este ensayo literario en el que el rigor se alia magistralmente con la fantasia, Adam Thirwell -ha sido incluido en dos ocasiones en la lista de los veinte mejores escritores jovenes ingleses de la celebre revista Granta- nos sumerge en la fascinante historia de la circulacion de los textos literarios...read more

Product Description: 'The more I knew of Haffner,' writes Adam Thirlwell in The Escape, 'the more real he became, this was true. And, simultaneously, Haffner disappeared.' In a forgotten spa town snug in the Alps, at the end of the twentieth century, Haffner is seeking a cure, more women, and a villa that belonged to his late wife...read more

The relationship between a father and daughter is marked by a ménage à trois, in which participants Moshe, Nana, and Anjali consider the politics of a three-way relationship and how their lives have been shaped by historical events, famous figures, and sexual issues. A first novel.

'The more I knew of Haffner,' writes Adam Thirlwell in The Escape, 'the more real he became, this was true. And, simultaneously, Haffner disappeared.' In a forgotten spa town snug in the Alps, at the end of the twentieth century, Haffner is seeking a cure, more women, and a villa that belonged to his late wife. But really he is trying to escape: from his family, his lovers, his history, his entire Haffnerian condition. For Haffner is 78. Haffner, in other words, is too old to be grown up.