Like Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, his own agonising experience of depression. Solomon also portrays the pain of others, in different cultures and societies whose lives have been shattered[...]

With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Andrew Solomon takes the reader on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is tru[...]

From the National Book Award winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work, a decade in the writing, about family. In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find prof[...]

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction prize, A Stone Boat is an achingly beautiful, deeply perceptive story of family, sexuality, and the startling changes wrought by grief, loss, and self-discovery.
Harry, an internationally celebrated young concert pianist, travels to Paris to con[...]

Med utgangspunkt i egne erfaringer har den engelsk-amerikanske forfatteren Andrew Solomon (som tidligere har utgitt skjønnlitteratur) skrevet en bok om det vanskelige temaet depresjon. På kort tid har den etablert seg som en klassiker i dette feltet. Han gjør grundig greie for hva depresjon er, [...]