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Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize

Finalist for the Women’s Prize

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

“A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” (New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)

“Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer…I’m so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable.” (David Sedaris)

From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet?

As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal", where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats - from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness - begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?"

Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.

Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.

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Autor

Patricia Lockwood

Patricia Lockwood nasceu em Fort Wayne, no Indiana, em 1982, e foi criada em várias cidades do Midwest norte-americano. É autora do livro de memórias Priestdaddy – um relato acerca da educação religiosa bastante peculiar da autora e da identidade individual na maturidade adulta, em contraponto à família e à tradição – e de duas coleções de poesia, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black e Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals. Quando os escreve, os seus artigos jornalísticos e ensaios são publicados, entre outros, na New Yorker, no New York Times, na New Republic e na London Review of Books, onde é editora. Com direitos de edição vendidos em mais de 20 territórios, Sobre Isto Ninguém Fala, um dos grandes livros do ano passado ao lado de Franzen, Ishiguro, Whitehead ou Doerr, é o seu primeiro romance. Com ele foi finalista do Booker Prize, do Women’s Prize for Fiction e do Center for Fiction First Novel Prize em 2021, e venceu o Dylan Thomas Prize em 2022, um dos mais prestigiantes prémios literários internacionais para jovens autores.


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