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One of Entertainment Weekly ´s "16 Debut Novels to Read in 2017" One of the Observer ´s "New Faces of Fiction for 2017" One of Elle UK´s "Six Top Debut Authors of 2017" One of i-D/ Vice ´s "10 Brilliant Emerging Female Authors to Read in 2017" An electrifying debut novel of obsessive love, family secrets, and the dangers of living our lives online At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, a Japanese writer living in New York, whose life story has strange parallels to her own and who 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.

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One of the Lady Magazine ´s "Must-reads for 2017" (UK) One of Autostraddle´s "45 Queer Feminist Books To Read in Early 2017" "In this zeitgeisty debut, Olivia Sudjic has revealed herself to be an erudite writer who can weave together themes of online obsessions, family secrets and unexpected parallel lives...Filled with explosive intelligence and dark humour, Sympathy is both beautiful and raw, and captures the essence of personal responsibility in the digital age."- ELLE (UK) " Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic [is] the best fictional account I´ve read of the way the internet has shaped our inner lives. A literary thriller that confirms the arrival of a major new talent." - THE GUARDIAN "The reason to read this novel, aside from the au courant topic, is the luscious, absorbing writing." -LIBRARY JOURNAL "In this unbelievably accomplished first novel, Olivia Sudjic creates a narrator whose compelling voice is timeless, even as her obsessions and the tools she uses to satisfy them are up-to-the-minute modern. At once a riveting mystery and a literary tour de force, Sympathy had me spellbound from the first page to the last." -Emily Gould, author of Friendship "Getting to know someone has always been a thorny affair. With the addition of personal devices, the line between bonding and surveillance has become freakishly blurred. Sympathy is a mind-bending novel that skillfully depicts the bizarre interplay of technology and intimacy with a story that is compassionate, funny, and incredibly alarming."- Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond "Olivia Sudjic elegantly explores the warped world of intimacies formed online-and how quickly those intimacies derail. Global in scope, as subtle as it is suspenseful, Sympathy is an extraordinary debut." -Idra Novey, author of Ways to Disappear "The thoughtful, intelligent and aptly named Sympathy is an ever-expanding map of the perils of internet life and takes us on a series of coiling emotional tumbles through the rabbit holes and wormholes between URL and IRL, with a heartbreakingly modern New York Alice trying simultaneously to hold on to reality and to discover her own humanity." -Louisa Young, author of The Heroes´ Welcome and others "An impressive debut. Complex, crisp and highly topical." -Vesna Goldsworthy, author of Gorsky and Chernobyl Strawberries

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