{"product_id":"eventideisbn-9781590518939","title":"Eventide","description":"“\u003ci\u003eEventide \u003c\/i\u003eis full of damn fine writing, but it’s the novel’s  irreverent attitude toward feminism that makes it necessary to read.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In her forties, childless, and living alone, Karolina Andersson feels adrift after the breakup of a long relationship. An art history professor, she finds fulfillment in her work, and when she starts advising a new postgraduate student, she is struck by his confidence. He claims to have discovered new materials from a female artist working around 1900 that could change the history of Swedish visual arts. Karolina soon finds herself embroiled in a complex game with both emotional and professional consequences. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEventide\u003c\/i\u003e is a perceptive novel of ideas about love, art, and solitude in our time, and the distorted standards to which women are held in their relationships and careers.\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year 2018\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Translation of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“[Bohman] perceptively explores the constraints facing a female professor in the academic world…compelling, nuanced, at times comical.” —\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eEventide \u003c\/i\u003eis full of damn fine writing, but it’s the novel’s irreverent attitude toward feminism that makes it as challenging as it is necessary to read.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This insightful novel is at once cutting and beautiful…masterful and devastating.” —\u003ci\u003eThree Percent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Bohman…is an adroit novelist with deep insights into the mind and heart of Karolina, a complex character whose restlessness, irresolution, and search for meaning make every one of her actions, both hesitancies and uncertainties, plausible and psychologically rich. Intelligent, impassioned, and compelling, [\u003ci\u003eEventide\u003c\/i\u003e] explores complex inner worlds with great sensitivity and insight.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Bohman’s prose is clear-eyed and arresting…With literary flare and levelheaded pacing, \u003ci\u003eEventide \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a glimpse into the unsettling nuances of academic gender politics and the restless, unbounded nature of female aging and agency.” —\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Moving…This psychologically rich journey provides insight into an intelligent, successful woman who burns with needs she fears she can’t fulfill.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“An absorbing feminist novel of psychological suspense…[Bohman’s] details about ivory-tower life are spot-on; she nails turf wars in academia with subtle wit…The novel ends in an elegant twist awash in schadenfreude. \u003ci\u003eEventide \u003c\/i\u003eis ink well spent.” —\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Bohman is a powerful artist of human feelings, and presents a compelling portrait of the inner life of the woman at the heart of her novel…a highly rewarding read.” —\u003ci\u003ePopMatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A heady, philosophical novel that’s also moving and absorbing.” —\u003ci\u003eBookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eEventide \u003c\/i\u003eis a spare, utterly satisfying tale of male frailty and one woman’s delicate act of revenge. Therese Bohman is a mesmerizing talent; she writes with wit, honesty, and devastating poise.” —Lucy Ives, author of \u003ci\u003eImpossible Views of the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Therese Bohman’s arresting novel explores contemporary mores with crystalline reflections on art and culture, passion and its absence…An intelligent, uncompromising story.” —Sylvia Brownrigg, author of \u003ci\u003ePages for Her\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Both incisive and tender, Therese Bohman’s elegant \u003ci\u003eEventide\u003c\/i\u003e leaves no stone unturned in the heart of her protagonist…Reading it was like having an intimate conversation with a brilliant woman in a deceptively still and quiet room.” —Bonnie Nadzam, author of \u003ci\u003eLions \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTherese Bohman\u003c\/b\u003e is a columnist for \u003ci\u003eExpressen\u003c\/i\u003e, writing about literature, art, culture, and fashion. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eDrowned\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Other Press in 2012, followed by \u003ci\u003eThe Other Woman\u003c\/i\u003e in 2016. She lives in Sweden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarlaine Delargy \u003c\/b\u003ehas translated novels by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Kristina Ohlsson, Henning Mankell, and Helene Tursten, as well as \u003ci\u003eA Fortune Foretold\u003c\/i\u003e by Agneta Pleijel and Therese Bohman's \u003ci\u003eDrowned\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Other Woman\u003c\/i\u003e. She serves on the editorial board of the \u003ci\u003eSwedish Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. 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