Sinopsis

ANew York TimesNotable Book of 2012 From the acclaimed American novelist and memoirist Ellen Ullman,By Bloodis a gothic noir novel that explores questions about fate, identity and genetics in the guise of a gripping psychological thriller.A professor is on leave from his post a leave that may have been forced upon him. He may or may not be of sound mind. To steady himself, he rents an office in San Francisco. It is 1974, a time when free love and psychedelic ecstasy have given way to drug violence and serial killings. Through the thin office walls, the professor overhears the sessions of a therapist and a patient, and without knowing the patient s name or face he comes to know the details of her life, her family, her lovers. He inserts himself into her search for her "mysterious origins": a deeply troubling journey through displaced-persons camps, stolen children, and hidden pasts. Ellen Ullman is a writer of ferocious intelligence, andBy Bloodis thrilling and fraught, a darkly...