by Siri Hustvedt · Sceptre · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781444779660
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«The Blazing World» is the literary fiction novel by Siri Hustvedt, published by Sceptre in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Harriet Burden, an artist ignored by the New York art scene, devises «Maskings»: exhibiting her work behind three male identities. When unmasked, some critics deny her authorship. The narrative, woven from diaries and testimonies, explores gender, fame, money, and desire in contemporary art.
Shortlisted for the 2014 Booker Prize, it won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. The original work was published in 2014.
For reading groups and for those seeking literary fiction about contemporary art, identity, and gender.
Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros (2006), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010), The Summer Without Men (2011), Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), The Blazing World (2014), Memories of the Future (2019), and Ghost Stories (2026). What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.
