Small G · Un Idilio De Verano

Finally published in the United States ten years after Patricia Highsmith's death, Small g , in the words of her biographer Andrew Wilson, is an "extended fairy tale suggesting that…happiness is precarious and…romance should be embraced."

In unmistakable Highsmithian fashion, the novel opens in a seedy Zurich bar with the brutal murder of Peter Ritter. Unraveling the vagaries of love, sexuality, jealousy, and death, Highsmith weaves a mystery both hilarious and astonishing, a classic tale executed with her characteristic penchant for darkness. Small g is at once an exorcism of Highsmith's literary demons and a revelatory capstone to a wholly remarkable career. It is a delightfully incantatory work that, in the tradition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , shows us how bizarre and unpredictable love can be.