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|title=Asunder

|author=Chloe Aridjis

|publisher=Vintage

|date=November 2014

|website=http://www.bookslut.com/features/2014_03_020542.php

|summary=This is one of those very beautiful novels where very little seems to happen. Marie is a National Gallery guard, following in the footsteps of her great-grandfather, who was on duty in 1914 when a suffragette vandalised a painting. Aridjis ponders art, decay and the traces ordinary people leave behind.

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Marie, the narrator of Chloe Aridjis's second novel, ''Asunder'', is a guard at the National Gallery in London. It is a simple, subdued life she leads in this 'tiny kingdom', but it suits her: 'I had always sought quiet in the world and there were few movements quieter, I realised, than paint cracking over time.' Most would find her work tedious, but over her nine years at the museum she has adjusted to the routine; 'unlike some of the new guards, I do not suffer from boredom or listlessness.'