Let Me Alone

An early and powerful novel of special interest as an autobiographical account of the personal stresses which Kavan was later to use and develop in her more experimental fiction. The account masterfully interweaves a vast array of characters, settings, and experiences ranging from the suicide of her father, to her adoption by a rich, beautiful and ruthless aunt, to her time in boarding school, and her loveless marriage to a bourgeois husband who took her to Burma.


Genre: Literary Fiction