Rooms for Vanishing
21 August 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Each member of the Alterman family is certain they are the only one to have survived the war. But their story is one of maybe-lived lives, parallel worlds and possibilities, and one populated by ghosts . . .
In the summer of 1938, Sonja is lifted onto a Kindertransport train that will take her from Nazi-occupied Austria to London. She leaves...
Details
21 August 2025464 pages
9781035060887Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Nadler is a genius. Rooms for Vanishing is the book of my dreamsSabrina Orah Mark
Stuart Nadler was already one of the most intelligent, precise, and profound writers of our generation. With Rooms for Vanishing his gift ascends to an astonishing new heightClaire Vaye Watkins, author of I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Reading Rooms for Vanishing feels like peering into a small window and discovering the whole universe. Past and present, what is missing and what is here, the finite facts and the infinite truth. This is a novel that aches with the possibility of retrieving what was lost, of seeing in body what exists so clearly in the heartRamona Ausubel, author of The Last Animal
Life-affirming and death-drenched, devastating and delightful . . . Rooms for Vanishing is a phantasmagorical portrait of violence and time, a detailed and patient cosmology of ghosts . . . I wept, real tears, at least seven times reading this novel, and I intend to return to these pages oftenMoriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Before All the World
