New Releases by Edward St. Aubyn

Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner Never Mind , the first installment in Edward St. Aubyn''s wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose Cycle, follows five-year-old Patrick through a single day, as the Melrose family awaits the arrival of guests. Bright and imaginative, young Patrick struggles daily to contend with the searing cruelty of his father and the resignation of his embattled mother. But on this day he must endure an unprecedented horror—one that splits his world in two. In Never Mind, St. Aubyn renders this vivid tragedy with profound grace and precision, and introduces us to the unforgettable, complex figure of Patrick Melrose.

From the award-winning author of The Patrick Melrose novels, a hilarious and moving story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked—a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss, written with St Aubyn’s trademark wit and inimitable style. It’s the summer of 2021, and Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him grappling with his fragile grip on reality and his persistent hunger to connect with the biological mother who abandoned him as a child. His therapist, Martin, is facing challenges of his own, including his adopted daughter’s tenuous relationship with her own biological mother—a predicament that makes Sebastian’s struggle feel uncannily proximate to her own. Olivia is producing a radio series on catastrophic natural disasters, which itself seems to be running parallel to the events unfolding in her personal life, as her best friend Lucy faces a grave diagnosis, and her husband, Francis, pursues his mission of re-wilding the world. Over the course of the next year their fates collide in outrageous and poignant ways, as each of their destinies is revealed in a marvelous new light. With characteristic brilliance and humour, Parallel Lines investigates themes of dualism, determinism, connection and love. St Aubyn captures the life of the spirit as vibrantly as the life of the mind, in a novel that wrestles with moral and psychic anguish and the cascading consequences of our choices at every stage of life. A thrilling, wholly captivating work from one of the most gifted writers at work today.

A brother and sister lost and found, in a novel that seizes your heart and enthrals your mind, from the author of the Patrick Melrose series. * The Orwell Prize Finalist 2025 * ''We set off in opposite directions and walked around the world until we met, and I''m very pleased we have...'' It is summer. Sebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him with a fragile hold on reality and a hunger to connect with the mother who abandoned him. His therapist, Martin, also faces challenges, including his adopted daughter Olivia''s tenuous relationship with her biological mother. Olivia, meanwhile, is producing a radio series on natural disasters, which itself seems to be running parallel to the events unfolding in her personal life. Over a year, their fates collide in outrageous and poignant ways, revealing their destinies in a new light. Parallel Lines is a novel about connection, family, love, and the cascading consequences of our choices. PRAISE FOR EDWARD ST AUBYN: ''Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation'' ALAN HOLLINGHURST ''I love Edward St Aubyn'' DONNA TARTT ''Nothing can prepare you for the rich, acerbic comedy of St Aubyn''s world'' ZADIE SMITH

"One of the most amazing reading experiences I''ve had in a decade. . . . [St Aubyn''s] great at dissecting an entire social world with a really wicked scalpel." —Michael Chabon, The Los Angeles Times Now a five-part Showtime series Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner For Patrick Melrose, "family" has always been a double-edged sword. At Last begins as friends, relatives, and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor. An American heiress, Eleanor married into the British aristocracy, giving up the grandeur of her upbringing for "good works" freely bestowed on everyone but her own son, who finds himself questioning whether his transition to a life without parents will indeed be the liberation he had so long imagined. The service ends, and family and friends gather for a final party. Amid the social niceties and social horrors, Patrick begins to sense the prospect of release from the extremes of his childhood, and at the end of the day, alone in his room, the promise some form of safety . . . at last. "Remarkable." —Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review "It''s pretty much a lock to be one of the funniest, saddest, most beautiful books of the year." —Lev Grossman, Time "An intelligent and surprisingly hopeful novel, a fitting conclusion to one of the best fictional cycles in contemporary fiction." —Anthony Domestico, The Boston Globe "Delightfully packed with gross privilege, dysfunction, and savage humor." —Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn, The Paris Review "Stunning . . . Deeply affecting." —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Sparkling . . . With the wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse, and the waspishness of Waugh." —Zadie Smith, Harper''s

Nel 2012 Edward St Aubyn pubblicò Lieto fine, l’ultimo capitolo della saga dei Melrose, e a numerosi critici apparve subito chiaro che uno scrittore di immenso talento aveva fatto il suo ingresso sulla scena letteraria internazionale. Alcuni videro nei suoi romanzi l’opera di una specie che si pensava estinta con Evelyn Waugh: l’anatomista dell’upper class. Altri colsero opportunamente nella sua scrittura, in cui la vasta gamma dei sentimenti che la anima non sfugge mai allo humour e all’ironia, «una densità filosofica» (Zadie Smith) rara nella narrativa contemporanea. Doppio cieco è, per profondità di pensiero e accuratezza dello stile, l’opera di St Aubyn più accostabile al ciclo narrativo dei Melrose. Apparentemente è un libro alla maniera di Ian McEwan – uno dei suoi personaggi minori è, non a caso, il dottor McEwan, neurochirurgo – in cui la letteratura si cimenta con i temi propri della scienza. Biochimica, botanica, immunoterapia, schizofrenia ed etica dei placebo sono, infatti, tra gli argomenti trattati. In realtα, è un’opera sulla contemporaneità e sul conflitto tra determinismo e libertà che la caratterizza. Spiccano, nella galleria dei personaggi che vi compaiono e ne fanno un romanzo corale, le figure di Olivia e Lucy, amiche sin dalla loro frequentazione di Oxford. Olivia è una biologa che si innamora di Francis, un naturalista incontrato a un convegno sulla megafauna, il quale, per conto di ricchi mecenati, si occupa di «ricreare» la spontaneità della natura. Lucy si innamora, invece, di Hunter Sterling, un capitalista megalomane e immaginifico che vuole «ricreare» l’esperienza dei mistici con il suo «casco Nirvana». Attorno a loro, un coro di figure minori, rappresentanti perfetti del caos della contemporaneità: accademici saccenti, impostori ammantati di linguaggio pseudoscientifico, schizofrenici, psicoanalisti, e sacerdoti come l’indimenticabile padre Guido, spedito a casa di Hunter dal Vaticano, incuriosito dalle sue mirabolanti invenzioni. Nell’universo tecnoscientifico dominato dalla «Medusa del determinismo» irrompe a un certo punto la fragilità della vita umana, la sua finitezza in cui solo consiste la libertà, la possibilità, ciò, di decidere e di prendersi cura dell’esistenza. «Non c’è niente, nella narrativa di questi anni, che possa reggere il confronto con la cruda, ironica ricchezza del mondo di St Aubyn e con la densità filosofica delle sue pagine». Zadie Smith «Doppio cieco vede St Aubyn spingersi in un territorio sconosciuto – scienza, ecologia e capitale di rischio». The New York Times

I "Dubbelblind" följer vi vännerna Lucy, Olivia och Francis under ett år då de kastas mellan hopp och förtvivlan. En oväntad sjukdom och ett neurologiskt forskningsprojekt driver dem till att studera hjärnans mest intrikata funktioner. Vad är arv och vad är miljö? Och vilka är skojarna som försöker kapitalisera på de senaste forskningsrönen? Jakten på svar leder till Big Sur och Antibes, till riskkapitalister, munkar och vilsna freudianer. I Edward St Aubyns utsökta prosa är allt dubbelt: här förenas hjärta och hjärna, storartad samtidssatir med existentiellt ödesdrama.

Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set inLondon, Cap d''Antibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambitious novel is about the headlong pursuit of knowledge—for the purposes of pleasure, revelation, money, sanity, or survival—and the consequences of fleeing from what we know about others and ourselves. When Olivia meets a new lover just as she is welcoming her best friend, Lucy, back from New York, her dedicated academic life expands precipitously. Her connection to Francis, a committed naturalist living off the grid, is immediate and startling. Eager to involve Lucy in her joy, Olivia introduces the two—but Lucy has received shocking news of her own that binds the trio unusually close. Over the months that follow, Lucy’s boss, Hunter, Olivia’s psychoanalyst parents, and a young man named Sebastian are pulled into the friends’ orbit, and not one of them will emerge unchanged. Expansive, playful, and compassionate, Edward St. Aubyn''s Double Blind investigates themes of inheritance, determinism, freedom, consciousness, and the stories we tell about ourselves. It is as compelling about ecology, psychoanalysis, genetics, and neuroscience as it is about love, fear, and courage. Most of all, it is a perfect expression of the interconnections it sets out to examine, and a moving evocation of an imagined world that is deeply intelligent, often tender, curious, and very much alive.

Henry Dunbar, un tempo a capo di una grande multinazionale, non sta vivendo un bel periodo. Dopo aver affidato il controllo della società alle figlie, Abby e Megan, due opportuniste senza scrupoli, inizia a dubitare della saggezza delle proprie decisioni. Come ha potuto escludere dal testamento Florence, nata da una successiva relazione? Benché timida e silenziosa, la sua terza figlia lo ha sempre amato teneramente. Ora imprigionato a Meadowmeade, un sanatorio di lusso nell’Inghilterra rurale, con l’unica compagnia del folle Peter, un comico alcolizzato, Dunbar inizia a pianificare la sua fuga. Mentre fugge sulle colline, la sua famiglia gli sta alle calcagna. Ma chi lo troverà per primo, la sua amata figlia minore, Florence, o le tigri Abby e Megan, così desiderose di spogliarlo della sua fortuna? Edward St Aubyn, famoso per i suoi capolavori, i cinque romanzi con protagonista Patrick Melrose, analizza con feroce precisione le agonie della vita familiare. La sua interpretazione di Re Lear, la tragedia più nera di Shakespeare, è uno scottante romanzo che racconta i nostri tempi: un graffiante sguardo ai giochi di potere, al valore del denaro e all’importanza del perdono.

Henry Dunbar a décidé de s’enfuir du foyer pour personnes âgées où ses filles l’ont placé en Cumbria, dans la région montagneuse du nord-ouest de l’Angleterre. Son acolyte dans l’aventure est un ancien comédien alcoolique avec lequel il a sympathisé... Ils tentent le tout pour le tout, et aucun des deux n’ignore qu’on essaiera de les retrouver par tous les moyens dès que leur disparition dans la nuit et la neige aura été découverte. Car Henry Dunbar n’est pas n’importe qui : il est l’un des hommes les plus riches de la planète, et même si à plus de quatre-vingts ans, il perd parfois un peu la tête, il est encore officiellement le patron d’un empire médiatique. Un empire convoité par ses filles Megan et Abigail, qui rêvent de prendre le contrôle du groupe lors de la prochaine assemblée générale. Elles traversent donc l’Atlantique en urgence – et en jet privé – pour essayer de remettre la main sur leur père afin de le neutraliser. Mais Florence, leur petite demi-sœur se montre plus rapide. Elle tient à revoir son père non pas pour s’emparer de l’héritage, mais dans le but de se réconcilier avec lui – il l’avait répudiée quand elle lui avait déclaré que son argent ne l’intéressait pas. Megan et Abigail, bien au contraire, ne pensent qu’à la fortune : assoiffées de pouvoir, elles sont prêtes à tout pour l’obtenir. Avec ses rebondissements loufoques ou drolatiques, Dunbar et ses filles est une tragi-comédie peuplée de nymphomanes hystériques, de manipulateurs manipulés et de grands lâches, tous attirés par le pouvoir et l’argent. St Aubyn nous offre non seulement une sorte de Roi Lear contemporain mais il tend surtout un miroir grossissant à notre époque. Traduit de l''anglais par David Fauquemberg.

Kun valta sokaisee. Ajankohtainen tulkinta Shakespearen Kuningas Learista. Tragedia kansainvälisen mediakonsernin johtajasta, jonka valta on sokaissut ja lähipiiri pettänyt. Mediakeisari Henry Dunbar on teljettynä Meadowmeadeen, yläluokkaiseen parantolaan Englannin maaseudulla, ainoana seuranaan dementoitunut komedianäyttelijä. Dunbar karkaa ylängölle ja pian hänen kannoillaan on koko perhe. Mutta tavoittaako Dunbarin ensimmäisenä hänen rakastettu ja rakastava kuopuksensa Florence vai tämän sisaret Abigail ja Megan, joiden ainoana päämääränä on vapauttaa Dunbar omaisuudestaan. "Uudelleen kirjoittamisesta tulee uudelleen elämistä, ohikiitävä häivähdys Shakespearen saavuttamatonta henkeä. Kaikki muu, trillereiden tapaan, on juonta ja lavasteita." New York Times Edward St Aubyn on Suomessa tunnettu Patrick Melrose -romaanien kirjoittaja. Romaanit on suomentanut Markku Päkkilä, joka vastaa myös Mediamogulin suomennoksesta. St Aubyn on syntynyt vuonna 1960, hän on naimisissa ja pariskunnalla on kaksi lasta. Perhe jakaa aikansa Englannin ja Ranskan välillä.

Des années 1960 aux années 2000, du sud de la France à la Grande-Bretagne en passant par New York, l’auteur raconte, dans une histoire semi-autobiographique, la vie de Patrick Melrose, qui naît dans une famille noble mais complètement dysfonctionnelle : repoussé par sa mère, abusé par son père, il devient un dandy alcoolique et drogué. Il quittera ce monde aristocratique à la dérive sans jamais pouvoir se réconcilier avec la figure paternelle, mais trouvera néanmoins une certaine forme d’apaisement. Sous une plume brillante et corrosive, mêlant la satire mondaine et l''humour acide à la tragédie la plus cruelle, Edward St Aubyn (prix Femina étranger pour Le Goût de la mère) nous offre une fresque incomparable autour d''un personnage inoubliable. Intelligent, drôle et méchant. Le Monde. La particularité des romans de St Aubyn tient à la manière dont les souffrances personnelles se trouvent contrebalancées par un art de la comédie sociale. The Guardian. Ce volume rassemble : 1. Peu importe 2. Mauvaise nouvelle 3. Après tout 4. Le Goût de la mère 5. Enfin Traduit de l’anglais par Marie Ploux, Sophie Brunet, Anne Damour.

Patrick è alle prese con le promesse infrante e gli inaspettati slanci filantropici della madre. Latte materno è il quarto romanzo de I Melrose. Da questo romanzo la serie Patrick Melrose in onda in esclusiva su sky atlantic dal 9 luglio.

David Melrose, padre sadico e autoritario, uccide i sogni e le fantasie del piccolo patrick, mentre la madre, persa in una nebbia di alcol e rimpianti, non si avvede di nulla. Non importa è il primo romanzo de I Melrose. Da questo romanzo la serie Patrick Melrose in onda in esclusiva su sky atlantic dal 9 luglio.

Now a major Sky TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch.The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and father, is trying to gather together the pieces of his life. Caught up in the turmoil of broken promises, assisted suicide, adultery and - most tender and terrifying of all - fatherhood, Patrick is still a long way from salvation, but even as the family struggles against the pull of its dark past, a new generation promises new light, new hope and - perhaps - the promise of a brighter future. Searingly funny and deeply humane, Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in the Patrick Melrose series, Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope; Patrick Melrose Volume 2, containing the final two novels in the series, Mother''s Milk and At Last.

Charlie Fairburn, sceneggiatore di successo, ex marito e padre assente, ha appena ricevuto una notizia ferale: gli rimangono solo sei mesi di vita. Come comportarsi dinnanzi a una simile diagnosi? L’atteso ritorno di Edward St Aubyn, l’acclamato autore de I Melrose, maestro nel dar vita a situazioni comiche e grottesche, raccontandole con ironia feroce e una prosa impeccabile.

Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a cruel father and an alcoholic mother to an adulthood fraught with addiction, Patrick Melrose is on a mission to escape himself. But the drugs don''t make him forget his past, and the glittering parties offer him no redemption.

Bundeling van de vijf autobiografisch getinte romans met als hoofdfiguur Patrick Melrose.

Edward St Aubyns meisterhafter Roman über einen machtbesessenen und eitlen Despot am Ende seines Lebens Sein ganzes Leben lang hat Henry Dunbar auf nichts und niemanden Rücksicht genommen, besessen von der Vision, seinen kleinen Zeitungsverlag zu einem Medienkonzern auszubauen. Auf dem Zenit seiner Macht hat nur noch einen einzigen, aber mächtigen Feind: das Alter. Dunbar weiß, er muss sein Reich in die Hände seiner Töchter legen. Nur zwei der Kinder hält er für geeignet. Doch das Leben erteilt ihm eine bittere Lektion. In seinem neuen Roman, inspiriert von Shakespeares König Lear, seziert Edward St Aubyn gekonnt innerfamiliäre Beziehungen. "Dunbar und seine Töchter" ist ein brillantes Lehrstück über Egoismus, Starrsinn und die Erkenntnis, wie leicht einem am Ende des Lebens alles Erreichte aus den Händen gleiten kann.

A reimagining of one of Shakespeare''s most well-read tragedies, by the contemporary, critically acclaimed master of domestic drama Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now imprisoned in Meadowmeade, an upscale sanatorium in rural England, with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate? Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. His take on King Lear, Shakespeare’s most devastating family story, is an excoriating novel for and of our times – an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness.

A inteligência e a elegância da prosa de Edward St. Aubyn no segundo volume dos Romances de Patrick Melrose. Por quase duas décadas, Edward St. Aubyn inspirou-se na própria história para retratar a vida de Patrick Melrose e o universo da elite inglesa numa aclamada empreitada literária. Mantendo a elegância e a inteligência características do primeiro volume, esta continuação dos Romances de Patrick Melrose reúne os dois títulos que encerram a série. Em O leite da mãe, Patrick, agora casado e pai de dois meninos, teme que a relação conturbada que teve com o pai envenene o seu próprio exercício de paternidade. Ao mesmo tempo, sua esposa Mary volta-se inteiramente ao cuidado das crianças; sua mãe, Eleanor, deseja realizar um suicídio assistido; e os filhos sempre parecem entender muito mais do que deveriam. O último livro, Enfim, é ambientado no funeral de Eleanor Melrose. Enquanto encara a perda da mãe, Patrick começa a aceitar e compreender os motivos que tornaram seus pais o que foram. Sozinho em seu quarto, pode finalmente vislumbrar a perspectiva de liberdade que há tanto tempo almeja.

I fem självrannsakande romaner följer vi Patrick Melrose från barndom till vuxenliv; från övergrepp och överdoser till överlevnad. Efter faderns roll i hans liv är turen nu kommen att skärskåda modern. Edward St Aubyn har länge setts som en klassiker i hemlandet England. När de tre första delarna kom ut på svenska 2016 höjdes de till skyarna av en enig kritikerkår: ”Alldeles fantastisk; ett fantastiskt språk, en skakande historia och en humor som befriar”, sa t ex Yukiko Duke i SVT Gomorron Sverige.

El jurat del Premi Literari Elisi ha de llegir centenars d''obres per tal de trobar el millor llibre de l''any. Al mateix temps, una colla d''escriptors estan desesperats per captar l''atenció d''aquest jurat: la brillant escriptora i trencacors Katherine Burns, el novel·lista debutant malalt d''amor Sam Black i en Sonny, convençut que el seu magnum opus, L''elefant morat, arrasarà el món literari com una tempesta. Ens revelarà, St Aubyn, el funcionament dels premis literaris? Com arriben, algunes obres, a ser seleccionades entre les finalistes? Quines són les motivacions per escollir la novel·la guanyadora? No tinc paraules és una sàtira enginyosa i fabulosament entretinguda que, d''una banda, va al gra quan tracta algunes de les qüestions més profundes sobre el paper de l''art en una cultura obsessionada per la celebritat, i, de l''altra, es pregunta com podem esperar reconèixer el talent real quan tothom té interessos personals. Irònicament, aquesta obra també va guanyar un premi literari.

”Det är helt enkelt exceptionellt bra. Så skarpt att orden skär ner till hjärtat, så medryckande sorgset och samtidigt så underhållande och roligt att den här recensenten vid upprepade tillfällen störde omgivningen med att skratta högt”.[Politiken] I fem självrannsakande romaner följer vi Patrick Melroses resa från barndom till vuxenliv; från övergrepp till överdoser och sedan till överlevnad. Edward St Aubyn har hyllats av en rad författare – bland andra Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen, Alan Hollinghurst – och har i sin giftiga skildring av den brittiska överklassen ofta jämförts med Oscar Wilde och Evelyn Waugh. Romanerna om Patrick Melrose – ”Glöm det”, ”Dåliga nyheter” och ”Visst hopp”.

Por quase vinte anos, o escritor Edward St. Aubyn retratou a vida de Patrick Melrose e o memorável universo de decadência, amoralidade, ganância, esnobismo e crueldade que marcam as relações e o modo de vida de uma classe social ultraprivilegiada. Como uma espécie de espelho da vida trágica do próprio escritor, os romances são um exercício literário brilhante de exorcizar seus demônios. Este primeiro volume reúne três dos cinco livros que compõem o ciclo de ficção vivamente aclamado pela crítica: Não importa, Más notícias e Alguma esperança.