Strange Girls: 'A superlative novel by one of our most perceptive writers' Julia Armfield
Autor Sarvat Hasinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mar 2026
'Simply sublime-about that feverish, feral first finding of true friendship that becomes all-encompassing and reforms who you are.' Kiran Milwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies
From award-winning author Sarvat Hasin comes a stunning novel about two estranged friends forced to reunite over one feverish weekend and reckon with the choices that tore them apart.
A decade has passed since Ava spoke to Aliya. Aliya has everything Ava wants-a room of her own and a publishing deal-and, worse, the thing Ava was certain neither of them had ever wanted: a sensible doctor husband. Arriving back in London for a mutual friend's hen party, Ava is desperate to unpack the truth of their shared history and what they meant to each other.
Aliya and Ava first met in the halls of their historic campus with dreams built upon Emily Brontë, Brideshead Revisited and Richard Curtis films. Their connection was electric. They created a world of their own through the stories they wrote, influencing and borrowing from each other's work. But when the end of university loomed, the real world began to pull them in opposite directions. Was their bond ever truly as strong as they thought? And what would become of the stories they told themselves about each other?
Weaving together their past and present, Strange Girls is an ingenious exploration of the ties forged in the intensity of youth, and the scars left when they break.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349703121
ISBN-10: 0349703124
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 234 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția Dialogue Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349703124
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 234 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția Dialogue Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Touching, infuriating and painfully true, Strange Girls is a superlative novel by one of our most perceptive writers. Sarvat Hasin is an artist whose work demands to be read.
Another dreamy, hypnotic novel from Sarvat Hasin, a writer who is a consummate expert in evoking the sweetness and pain of nostalgia . . . Utterly gorgeous.
Simply sublime - about that feverish, feral first finding of true friendship that becomes all-encompassing and reforms who you are.
Sarvat Hasin is a storming talent and Strange Girls is a beautiful and yearning read.
Vivid, layered, and sharp, Strange Girls is a striking portrait that captures the messy, tense, and beautiful struggles where friendship meets longing. Sarvat Hasin has penned a novel profoundly tender and unrelenting. I envy whoever reads it next for the very first time.
Compulsive and all-consuming, Strange Girls charts the intoxicating waters of friendship where you are both seen too clearly and yet not at all. Hasin devastatingly evokes that fumbling age of identity construction, of finding meaning and purpose in another person when you fear there's none you can find in yourself, at once lost yet entirely particular. I'm obsessed.
A wonder of a novel. Tender and keen-eyed, with characters so lifelike you could reach out and touch them. Hasin's approach to storytelling remains singularly brilliant. I loved it.
I absolutely ate Strange Girls up. Hasin writes fraught friendships, chaotic codependency and queer longing with consummate sensitivity and wryness.
A novel of rare clarity and insight, aching with a complex, deeply felt love. I was captivated and moved from the outset.
Luminous, tender and near mythic . . . This novel had its grip on my heart from the very first pages.
Strange Girls is a tense and enthralling portrait of a relationship that resists definition . . . Hasin writes love in all its troubling forms with beautiful nuance, and this novel is an entire world unto itself. You'll hate to leave it.
I adored Strange Girls. Beautifully written, Sarvat Hasin perfectly captures university life in the noughties, the all-consuming intimacy of closeted queer-coded relationships between young women and the unbearable weight of unspoken feelings. PERFECTION.
Hasin plumbs the depths of obsessive, intense friendship; the beautiful, the sad and the heartbreaking. A breathtaking novel by one of the most exciting writers today.
Strange Girls is alive with the intoxicating intensity of youthful creative friendship-devotion, jealousy, and a shared hunger for art. Sarvat Hasin's fresh, tender writing stayed with me, capturing how deeply those early bonds can shape, and scar, a life.
Hasin's writing is evocative and addictive, layering in issues of class, place and race into an otherwise introspective and detailed novel.
A novel both radiant with the brightness and wonder of youth, and wise-eyed with the dissolution of idealism. Sarvat Hasin is a brilliant chronicler of the human heart, and this book will move and enthral anyone who has been deeply entwined in friendship, love and nostalgia (that is, everyone!).
Masterfully weaving through past and present and between the threads of tension, jealousy, and tenderness, Strange Girls is a triumphant portrait of female friendship.
Irresistible . . . Hasin crafts an intriguing story full of ambitions, jealousy and homoerotic female friendship that readers will not be able to shake free from.
Flawlessly and seemingly effortlessly brings readers into intimate moments without feeling intrusive. Heart lives on every page . . . The silence and yearning are heartbreaking.
In elegant prose, Hasin explores the intense friendships of youth and how this translates in adult life.
Finally, a book that gives the agony and angst of friendship breakups its literary due . . . A compelling portrait of the complexities of platonic heartbreak.
In uncomplicated and enthralling prose, Strange Girls encapsulates the orbital resonance of two women who feel certain of who they are while still becoming who they will be, and the beauty and mess of what people ask of each other in their closest relationships.
Hasin's prose immaculately captures the heartbreak, the growing pains, the inimitable bonds we develop at tender, malleable ages.
Another dreamy, hypnotic novel from Sarvat Hasin, a writer who is a consummate expert in evoking the sweetness and pain of nostalgia . . . Utterly gorgeous.
Simply sublime - about that feverish, feral first finding of true friendship that becomes all-encompassing and reforms who you are.
Sarvat Hasin is a storming talent and Strange Girls is a beautiful and yearning read.
Vivid, layered, and sharp, Strange Girls is a striking portrait that captures the messy, tense, and beautiful struggles where friendship meets longing. Sarvat Hasin has penned a novel profoundly tender and unrelenting. I envy whoever reads it next for the very first time.
Compulsive and all-consuming, Strange Girls charts the intoxicating waters of friendship where you are both seen too clearly and yet not at all. Hasin devastatingly evokes that fumbling age of identity construction, of finding meaning and purpose in another person when you fear there's none you can find in yourself, at once lost yet entirely particular. I'm obsessed.
A wonder of a novel. Tender and keen-eyed, with characters so lifelike you could reach out and touch them. Hasin's approach to storytelling remains singularly brilliant. I loved it.
I absolutely ate Strange Girls up. Hasin writes fraught friendships, chaotic codependency and queer longing with consummate sensitivity and wryness.
A novel of rare clarity and insight, aching with a complex, deeply felt love. I was captivated and moved from the outset.
Luminous, tender and near mythic . . . This novel had its grip on my heart from the very first pages.
Strange Girls is a tense and enthralling portrait of a relationship that resists definition . . . Hasin writes love in all its troubling forms with beautiful nuance, and this novel is an entire world unto itself. You'll hate to leave it.
I adored Strange Girls. Beautifully written, Sarvat Hasin perfectly captures university life in the noughties, the all-consuming intimacy of closeted queer-coded relationships between young women and the unbearable weight of unspoken feelings. PERFECTION.
Hasin plumbs the depths of obsessive, intense friendship; the beautiful, the sad and the heartbreaking. A breathtaking novel by one of the most exciting writers today.
Strange Girls is alive with the intoxicating intensity of youthful creative friendship-devotion, jealousy, and a shared hunger for art. Sarvat Hasin's fresh, tender writing stayed with me, capturing how deeply those early bonds can shape, and scar, a life.
Hasin's writing is evocative and addictive, layering in issues of class, place and race into an otherwise introspective and detailed novel.
A novel both radiant with the brightness and wonder of youth, and wise-eyed with the dissolution of idealism. Sarvat Hasin is a brilliant chronicler of the human heart, and this book will move and enthral anyone who has been deeply entwined in friendship, love and nostalgia (that is, everyone!).
Masterfully weaving through past and present and between the threads of tension, jealousy, and tenderness, Strange Girls is a triumphant portrait of female friendship.
Irresistible . . . Hasin crafts an intriguing story full of ambitions, jealousy and homoerotic female friendship that readers will not be able to shake free from.
Flawlessly and seemingly effortlessly brings readers into intimate moments without feeling intrusive. Heart lives on every page . . . The silence and yearning are heartbreaking.
In elegant prose, Hasin explores the intense friendships of youth and how this translates in adult life.
Finally, a book that gives the agony and angst of friendship breakups its literary due . . . A compelling portrait of the complexities of platonic heartbreak.
In uncomplicated and enthralling prose, Strange Girls encapsulates the orbital resonance of two women who feel certain of who they are while still becoming who they will be, and the beauty and mess of what people ask of each other in their closest relationships.
Hasin's prose immaculately captures the heartbreak, the growing pains, the inimitable bonds we develop at tender, malleable ages.