Sigrid Nunez

The new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Friend 'When I open one of Sigrid Nunez's novels, I almost always know immediately: This is where I want to be' NEW YORK TIMES 'I just adore Sigrid Nunez' PAULA HAWKINS Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character...

WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief...

'A sharp-eyed and tender novel about human connection' (PAULA HAWKINS) from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend 'A must-read about unlikely friendships' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE 'One of my favourite authors' NATALIE PORTMAN 'A novel that truly, truly speaks to the soul' GLAMOUR 'Makes you feel smarter and more alive' PEOPLE The Vulnerables introduces three strangers brought together...

The paths of two women from different walks of life intersect amid the counterculture of the 1960s in this haunting and provocative novel from the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend. It is Columbia University, 1968. Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as roommates on the first night. Ann is rich and radical; Georgette is leery and introverted, a...

Now a Pedro Almodóvar film - THE ROOM NEXT DOOR - starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore 'I was totally overwhelmed by this extraordinary novel. A total joy - and laugh-out-loud funny' — DEBORAH MOGGACH The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death,...

When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatised by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction—dogs are prohibited in her apartment...

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation, comes the story of a woman's experiences of war and an unusual friendship. 'Resonant and provocative' VOGUE 'One of my favourite authors' NATALIE PORTMAN I did not remember a Rouenna Zycinski. I was sure I had never known her. But many years...

One of the Guardian's most anticipated books for 2026, the first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend. 'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' ANNE ENRIGHT 'Among the most interesting writers of our generation' INDEPENDENT 'Nunez gracefully leaps from big emotions, including grief, to erudite literary...

An intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf - and their pet marmoset monkey called Mitz - from the National Book Award-winning author of THE FRIEND 'A perfect little gem of a book' NIGEL NICOLSON 'Nunez takes us beneath the surface to the essential mysteries of the human heart' WALL STREET JOURNAL In 1934, a...

By the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend 'A story that abounds in vivid moments and moods' New York Times Book Review 'Among the most interesting writers of our generation' Independent The night had passed, and though they had not undressed and they had not slept and there had been only kisses between them, the intimacy had been...

From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of The Friend, comes this mesmerising story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love. 'A pleasure from the first page to the last' — JONATHAN FRANZEN A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a...