The Affirmation

Description

Peter Sinclair, a 29-year-old Londoner, is reeling after losing his father, his girlfriend, his job and his flat. Taking refuge in a friend’s rural cottage, he tries to make sense of things and figure out where his life began to go wrong by writing an autobiography. *But it is possible that none of this is true* . . . Peter Sinclair is a 31-year-old native of the city of Jethra in Faiandland who has just won the grand prize in a lottery: a trip to the Dream Archipelago, a neverending series of idyllic islands, where he will undergo a medical procedure that gives him immortality. Because the process also results in total amnesia, Peter must first set down all the details of his life in a manuscript in order to recover the memories afterwards. *But it is also possible that none of this is true* . . . As the two narratives intersect and intertwine, the reader must decide what is real and what is not in this brilliant literary mindgame from Christopher Priest, the award-winning author of *The Prestige* and *The Separation*. CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS “Priest writes extraordinarily well . . . his best novel to date . . . an atmosphere of increasingly oppressive menace.” – Francis King, *The Spectator* “There is a compulsive, dreamlike quality about *The Affirmation* that defies definition.” – *Daily Telegraph* “An original and haunting novel.” – *London Times* “A brilliant and sustained novel of imaginative power.” – *Vector*