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The Sorrows of an American

After their father's funeral Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from an unknown woman among his papers dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York Erik sets about reading his father's memoir hoping to discover the man he never fully understood.

At the same time another woman enters Erik's lonely divorced life - a beautiful Jamaican who moves into his garden flat with her small daughter. As Erik gets drawn into the cat-and-mouse tactics of someone who appears to be stalking her he finds out that his sister Inga is also being threatened by a journalist in possession of a wounding secret from her past.

A multi-layered novel that probes the mysteries of the heart and mind THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN is compulsive thought-provoking and profoundly affecting.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : APR 2, 2009
  • Imprint : Sceptre
  • Page Extent : 320
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780340897089
  • Price : INR 799
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