Deborah Levy: Swimming Home. 2011
Ljudbok (4 CD, lånad från Åbo stadsbibliotek).

Boken var på shortlist för Man Booker Prize. Bra uppläsning av Juliet Aubrey.

”… a middle-class holiday, two families sharing a villa, and a stranger coming into their lives. The risk of cosy familiarity seems great – the usual conflicts, the expected twists – but the result is something spiky and unsettling. In south-east France in July 1994, Joe and Isabel Jacobs are staying with their 14-year-old daughter Nina and another couple. Joe is a poet, his name anglicised after fleeing occupied Poland in 1942 at the age of five. Isabel is a war reporter. Their friends Mitchell and Laura run a business selling primitive weaponry as souvenirs. None is prepared for the sight of a woman (”Is it a bear?”) in their swimming pool one afternoon. She is Kitty Finch, the engine of the book. Isabel invites Kitty to stay. She and Joe are troubled in their marriage and Kitty is ”a window waiting to be climbed through” for both of them. Her tendency to wander around naked makes her body the object of examination. She is doll-like, and has the appearance of a mute, male fantasy, but she is an agent of change, potent as well as vulnerable. Her reason for coming to the villa is her love for Joe’s poetry, and, to his dismay, she has brought her own poem, ”Swimming Home”, for him to read.”