Kudos

Rachel Cusk, Faber & Faber

A woman writer travels through a changing Europe, where questions of personal and political identity rise to the surface, and the trauma of change opens up new possibilities for loss and renewal.

Amid the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds human history in disarray, surrounded by differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative self. Among the people she encounters, she begins to identify a tension between truth and representation, a fissure that acquires tremendous dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound and magnificent climax.

In this conclusion to her groundbreaking trilogy, Rachel Cusk relentlessly explores the nature of family and art, justice and love, and the ultimate value of suffering.