The Blazing World A Novel [Paperback]

Named one of theNew York TimesBook Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year **Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 **Kirkus ReviewsBest Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 **Boston Globe’s Best Fiction of 2014 **The Telegraph’s Best Fiction to Read 2014 **St. Louis Post Dispatch’s Best Books of 2014 **The IndependentFiction Books of the Year 2014 ** One ofBuzzfeed’s Best Books Written by Women in 2014 **San Francisco Chronicle’s Best of 2014 ** A Nancy Pearl Pick ** PopMatters.com’s Best of 2014 Fiction

Winner of the 2014 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction

Finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize

Hailed byThe Washington Postas “Siri Hustvedt’s best novel yet, an electrifying work,”The Blazing Worldis a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman’s struggle to be seen.

In a new novel called “searingly fresh... A Nabokovian cat’s cradle” on the cover ofThe New York Times Book Review, the internationally bestselling author tells the provocative story of artist Harriet Burden, who, after years of having her work ignored, ignites an explosive scandal in New York’s art world when she recruits three young men to present her creations as their own. Yet when the shows succeed and Burden steps forward for her triumphant reveal, she is betrayed by the third man, Rune. Many critics side with him, and Burden and Rune find themselves in a charged and dangerous game, one that ends in his bizarre death.

An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle presented as a collection of texts, including Harriet’s journals, assembled after her death, this “glorious mashup of storytelling and scholarship” (San Francisco Chronicle) unfolds from multiple perspectives as Halc*