Sybille Bedford's final, autobiographical novel

The latest addition to the NYRB Classics series, now on sale at 30% off "Her writing is like the conversation of a clever, worldly friend who we wish would come by more often." —Joan Acocella, The New Yorker [JIGSAW]( SYBILLE BEDFORD WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The boundaries between fiction and autobiography blur in Jigsaw, Sybille Bedford's fourth and final novel, which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize. With her signature wit and artistry, Bedford tells her singular coming-of-age story, growing up across Europe in the 1920s. She elegantly describes her childhood spent alone with her father in a château deep in the German countryside, a life of "ungenteel poverty in quite grand surroundings," and writes of her return to her erratic, enchanting mother in Italy, and the dark secret that consumes her mother's life. From Italy, Bedford takes us to the French Riviera, where she lived with and learned from Aldous and Maria Huxley, who encouraged Bedford to write. "To read Bedford’s work is to bask in the presence of someone at once German, French, and English—at the very least—who knew these countries from deep within herself and was able to enjoy their distinctions without ever belittling or simplifying them. If the word cosmopolitan had been coined with a particular literary figure in mind, it might have been Sybille Bedford." —Sylvia Brownrigg, The Paris Review [MORE ABOUT THE BOOK]( For three days only, Jigsaw, along with Sybille Bedford's [A]([Visit to Don Otavio](, [A Legacy](, and [A]([Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error](, will be available at 30% off. New York Review Books 435 Hudson Street, Suite 300 New York, NY 10014 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](