An Unexpected Guest

A Novel

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By Anne Korkeakivi

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Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her husband’s career. As she shops for fresh stalks of asparagus and works out the menu and seating arrangements, her day is complicated by the unexpected arrival of her son and a random encounter with a Turkish man, whom she discovers is a suspected terrorist.

Like Virginia Woolf did in Mrs. Dalloway, Anne Korkeakivi brilliantly weaves the complexities of an age into an act as deceptively simple as hosting a dinner party.

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On Sale
Apr 17, 2012
Page Count
288 pages
ISBN-13
9780316196765

Anne Korkeakivi

About the Author

Anne Korkeakivi is the author of the novels An Unexpected Guest and Shining Sea, winner of the 2016 Lois Kahn Wallace Writers Award. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications in the United States and Britain, and she is a Hawthornden Fellow. Born and raised in New York City, she has lived in France and Finland, and currently resides in Geneva, Switzerland, where her husband is a human-rights lawyer with the United Nations. They have two daughters.

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