PUTNEY PAPERBACK – OUT 4 JUNE 2019
Sofka Zinovieff's latest book is Putney (Out July 2018).
Biography
Sofka Zinovieff was born in London, has Russian ancestry and has lived in Greece for many years. Her latest book is an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a much older man.
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PUTNEY REVIEWS
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“It is rare to find oneself reading so compulsively a book that promises no resolution or easy answers; I admired this combination of intellectual honesty and bravura storytelling.”
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“A finely nuanced study of the way different people make subjective sense of the past, and a reminder that the novel (like the analyst’s couch) is a great space for thinking about the unthinkable.”
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“A disturbing, well-structured, nuanced story that provides no simple answers — an important addition to an urgent, current conversation.”
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“Thought-provoking and relevant, Sofka Zinovieff’s new novel “Putney” will provide plenty of book groups with fodder for discussions about female sexuality, child molestation, friendship and the #MeToo movement.”
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“Certain books worm their way into your soul, grabbing you from the opening paragraph and holding you in their grip until the final page has been turned. Sofka Zinovieff’s Putney is just such a book, compelling the reader from its atmospheric opening until its bruising, bittersweet end.”
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Latest Updates
CHARLESTON FESTIVAL 27 May 2019
INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE Sofka Zinovieff and Tessa Hadley will be appearing with Juliet Nicolson Sofka Zinovieff’s novel Putney is a contemporary Lolita. Its subject is sexual obsession, revolving around an abusive relationship, unacknowledged for forty years, between a grown man and a young... Read The Rest →
Putney chosen as a Best Book of the Year 2018
Andrew Marr in the New Statesman I “hugely enjoyed Putney by Sofka Zinovieff, about sexual obsession in the freethinking 1970s, and the anti-paedophilia world of today. It is beautifully written and genuinely shocking; it’s as if Nabokov had given Lolita eyes and a... Read The Rest →
“Creepy but not criminal”. The latest Woody Allen story. The Guardian
The latest Woody Allen story is creepy, but let’s not call it criminal Sofka Zinovieff I don’t defend the film director over his alleged affair with 17-year-old Christina Engelhardt, but the realities of power and sex are complex The... Read The Rest →
Talk at The Hellenic Centre, London:‘Three Anglo-Greek families: three books’
Tuesday 2 April 2019, 7 pm The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, London W1U 5AS Sofka will speak to The Anglo-Hellenic League about the Anglo-Greek lives of the families described in three of her books: two fictional, Putney (2018) and The House on... Read The Rest →
Gliterary Lunch, Glasgow 29.11.18
Gliterary Lunches 29th November 2018 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm The Principal Grand Central, 99 Gordon Street, Glasgow G1 3SF Speakers: Sarah Vaughan & Sofka Zinovieff Putney by Sofka Zinovieff The Author Sofka Zinovieff studied at Cambridge, then lived... Read The Rest →
