The Tenth Muse
$24.83
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2020
Summary
‘A young woman’s battle for acceptance in a male-dominated world; her misadventures in love; and her torturous journey to track down her real parents in Germany’ Mail on Sunday Best New Fiction
From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But as she grows up and becomes a mathematician, she faces the most human of problems - who is she? What is the cost of love, and what is the cost of ambition?
On her quest to co…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349142807 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349142807 |
| Author: | Catherine Chung |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2020 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 24mm |
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly , The Rumpus and Buzzfeed
The cliche that boys are better at math collapses before the diamond-hard mind of a grad student whose relentless attempt to prove a legendary hypothesis exposes a deeper algorithm about herself….Captivating - O, the Oprah Magazine
A page-turning intellectual thriller, a family romance, an alternative history of twentieth-century math - I couldn’t put it down - Elif BatumanAmbitious, mesmerizing, and immersive, The Tenth Muse gives us a character we’d follow anywhere, and journeys well worth following her on. This novel dazzles - Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great BelieversCatherine Chung has written a deft, spellbinding emotional puzzle-box of a book, rich and intricately layered - Tea ObrehtAbout The Author
Catherine Chung
Catherine Chung is the author of The Tenth Muse and Forgotten Country, for which she won an Honorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a Granta New Voice and a Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and was the recipient of a Dorthy Sargent Rosenberg Prize in poetry. She has a degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and worked at a think tank in Santa Monica before receiving her MFA from Cornell University. She has published work in the New York Times and Granta, and is a fiction editor at Guernica Magazine. She lives in New York City.
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