The Tenth Muse

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iun 2020

From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But in becoming a mathematician, she faces the most human of problems - who is she? What is the cost of love, and what is the cost of ambition?

On her quest to conquer one of the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of her time, she turns to a theorem with a mysterious history tied to secrets long buried during World War II. Forced to confront some of the biggest events of the twentieth century Katherine discovers that everything she thought true about her own parents is thrown up in the air...

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ISBN-13: 9780349142807
ISBN-10: 0349142807
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group

Notă biografică

Catherine Chung is the author of The Tenth Muse and Forgotten Country, for which she won an Honorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a Granta New Voice and a Director's Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and was the recipient of a Dorthy Sargent Rosenberg Prize in poetry. She has a degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and worked at a think tank in Santa Monica before receiving her MFA from Cornell University. She has published work in the New York Times and Granta, and is a fiction editor at Guernica Magazine. She lives in New York City.

Descriere

A gripping novel about a brilliant and gifted young woman, her struggle to succeed in a male-dominated world, and the secret of her past bound up in World War II.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

From the days of her childhood in the 1950s Midwest, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem. As she matures from a girl of rare intelligence into an exceptional mathematician, traveling to Europe to further her studies, she must face the most human of problems—who is she? What is the cost of love, and what is the cost of ambition? These questions grow ever more entangled as Katherine strives to take her place in the world of higher mathematics and becomes involved with a brilliant and charismatic professor.
When she embarks on a quest to conquer the Riemann hypothesis, the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of her time, she turns to a theorem with a mysterious history that may hold both the lock and the key to her identity, and to secrets long buried during World War II. Forced to confront some of the most consequential events of the twentieth century and rethink everything she knows of herself, she finds kinship in the stories of the women who came before her, and discovers how seemingly distant lives and ideas are inextricably linked to her own.
The Tenth Muse is a gorgeous, sweeping tale about legacy, identity, and the beautiful ways the mind can make us free.

Recenzii

“The cliché that boys are better at math collapses before the diamond-hard mind of a grad student whose relentless attempt to prove a legendary hypothesis exposes a deeper algorithm about herself.... Captivating.” — O, the Oprah Magazine
“Tackles questions of identity, betrayal, ambition and loneliness.... Distinctive... An absorbing summer read.” — New York Times Book Review
“Can a mathematician also be an accomplished storyteller? The answer is an emphatic yes.... Elegant and absorbing fiction....Her work radiates a love of the subject....Her real subject, beyond the magic of storytelling, is the problem of identity, as shaped by gender, ethnicity, history and choice.” — Chicago Tribune
“This shimmering, gorgeous book grapples with the secrets in the world around us, and the one within us; Chung’s prose is electric, and this story is a provocative exploration of the puzzles that most need interrogating.” — Nylon Magazine
“Need a metaphor for the unassailable tangle of the self? The Riemann Hypothesis, one of the great unsolved mathematical problems, does nicely in this novel. About 50 years ago, mathematician Katherine was attempting to unpick its knot, and at the same time deal with revelations about her own family heritage.” — Elle
“The Tenth Muse centers on Katherine, an aspiring mathematician whose studies take her deep into her family history, and a legacy of genius and empowerment which probes compelling questions about her identity.” — Entertainment Weekly
“An interrogation of truth and its value — of secrets, sacrifice, and identity.” — Buzzfeed
“Themes of one’s legacy, breakthroughs, and identity is woven throughout Catherine Chung’s latest novel about a mathematician facing down her generation’s most difficult, unsolved theorum, digging into intentionally buried research during WWII to blaze her own path and become a name mentioned in history books.” — Thrillist
“Chung masterfully subverts our expectations... Endlessly thrilling. An exquisite story of legacy, selfhood, survival, and integrity... The Tenth Muse is an inspiring tour de force of STEAM proportions: a riveting intersection of mathematics and art.” — The Rumpus
“A powerful and virtuosically researched story about the mysteries of the head and the heart.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Chung’s impressive, poignant second novel (after Forgotten Country) explores the intersections of intellectual and familial legacies.... Chung persuasively interweaves myths and legends with the real-world stories of lesser-known women mathematicians and of WWII.... Chung’s novel boldly illustrates that truth and beauty can reside even amid the messiest solutions.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The Tenth Muse champions female intellectual independence while uncovering sacrifices made to acquire it.... Powerful.” — Shelf Awareness (starred review)
“Mathematics and its history, the legacy of WWII, and the struggles women face in pursuing academic success, especially in fields dominated by men, are woven into this novel that Chung (Forgotten Country, 2012) renders in polished prose.” — Booklist
“Chung’s development of key characters is strong, her light prose flows easily throughout, and she successfully represents a young woman attempting to find her identity and stand out in a field dominated by men.... Engaging.” — Library Journal
“Bountiful in scope, fables, intellect, and heart, the novel is at times heart-wrenching.” — Christian Science Monitor
“The Tenth Muse will shake your views on female success.... Here is a novel that is so real it hurts at times.... It brings the reader on the bumpy hard path of truth and sacrifice, blood ties and betrayal, human injustice and forgiveness.” — New York Journal of Books
“The Tenth Muse is as ambitious and intriguing as the complex math problems Katherine, the protagonist of this remarkable novel, aims to solve. In this novel—the scope of which is staggering—Chung has crafted a story that is moving, elegant, and richly written.” — Roxane Gay, author of Hunger
“A deft, spellbinding emotional puzzle-box of a book, rich and intricately layered. The Tenth Muse slowly, carefully builds to turn your every expectation on its head, and reading it feels like a glimpse of what mathematics might be in the eyes of its ablest practitioners—both secret and sublime.” — Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife
“A page-turning intellectual thriller, a family romance, an alternative history of twentieth-century math—I couldn’t put it down.” — Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot
“Ambitious, mesmerizing, and immersive, The Tenth Muse gives us a character we’d follow anywhere, and journeys well worth following her on. This novel dazzles.” — Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers
“Arresting in scope and its treatment of time, its prose at turns crystalline and richly balletic, this story pulls puzzle from puzzle – human, historical, and all too contemporary.”
— Helen Oyeyemi, author of Gingerbread
“Catherine Chung’s gorgeous novel, The Tenth Muse, about mathematics and identity, and the cost of being a talented and ambitious woman in a world preoccupied with male success, rushed over me like a wave and carried me out to sea where, pleasantly, I drowned.” — Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office Is Under Attack!
“The Tenth Muse is a must-read. This beautiful, captivating novel has it all: A riveting family secret; a heroine ahead of her time; and a brilliant historical narrative that sheds light on the way we live now.” — J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Saints for All Occasions
“The Tenth Muse gives life to the story of brilliant Katherine, whose exceptional gift for seeing the patterns in numbers leads her to dramatic and heartbreaking discoveries, even as they lead to understanding and wisdom about her own existence. This is a passionate and beautiful book.”
— Alice Elliott Dark, author of In the Gloaming
“A profound feminist contemplation upon the ways in which societies everywhere privilege male over female lives, and male creativity preys on female ingenuity.... The Tenth Muse is a thoroughly original take on history from a woman’s perspective and could not be timelier.” — Historical Novels Review

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