Trespass: A Novel

by Rose Tremain

Overview

"Complex, suspenseful, and almost hypnotically readable." —Margot Livesey, Boston Globe

In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse. Aramon, the owner, is so haunted by his violent past that he drowns himself in drink. Meanwhile, his sister Audrun dreams of exacting retribution for a lifetime of betrayals. Into this world comes Anthony Verey, a disillusioned antiques dealer from London. When he sets his sights on the house, a frightening series of consequences is set in motion.

"Rose Tremain's writing is so good, she makes us hear English anew," writes the San Francisco Chronicle. This powerful and unsettling work, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, reveals yet another dimension to Tremain's extraordinary imagination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393340600
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/24/2011
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	253
Sales rank:	1,035,031
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Rose Tremain's prize-winning books, including The Road Home, The Gustav Sonata, Merivel, and The American Lover, have been published in thirty countries. Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and member of the Royal Society of Literature, she lives in Norfolk, England with the biographer Richard Holmes.

Editorial Reviews

"The book feels timeless but rooted, tangible but otherworldly. Meticulously plotted, with the must sadness that comes of cleaving to the past, Trespass will reward your reading…and have you questioning if blood is thicker than water after all."

Scotland on Sunday

"[Tremain] knows how to stretch a good yarn, and this one…has an effortless ease to it."

Financial Times

"A gothic novel, dark and eerie…Rose Tremain is a maestro."

Jane Smiley

"Like Howards End, Trespass proves that the vagaries of real estate can make for dramatic fiction…[Rose Tremain] grabs her readers by their ankles and dangles them over the abyss. She spares us nothing and she never lets us go."

David Leavitt

"Explores, in an agreeably creepy way, notions about the stewardship of land both wild and cultivated…[a] potent little horror story."

Wall Street Journal - Donna Rifkind

"A thoroughly engrossing psychological thriller…Tremain’s writing is both vivid and wonderfully compressed, the eye that is cast over proceedings unblinking…From an apparent idyll, Tremain has summoned a spirit of profound disquiet and, as with all her best writing, revealed the anguish that can lie just below the surface of everyday lives."

The Independent

"This is a terrific book: accomplished in its poised, imaginative storytelling and in its vivid, sensual rendering of landscape and character, emotion, and memory."

The Times

"The story Tremain weaves between her pair of siblings is taut and full of suspense…Trespass evinces a steely grip on corrupt human nature."

The Guardian

"A dark and unflinching novel.... Tremain knows how to work the authorial searchlight... She grabs her readers by their ankles and dangles them over the abyss. She spares us nothing and she never lets us go."

The New York Times Book Review