The Unexpected Guest is the debut novel by American Anna Korkeakivi, who has already gained fame with stories, articles and essays published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and the Times of London. The novel centers on the life of the family of a high-ranking European diplomat, and the author knows well what he is writing about: the writer’s husband is a Finnish diplomat, a UN employee, and they now live in Switzerland. The wife of the assistant to the British ambassador in Paris, Claire Moorhouse, carefully plans a dinner party - depending on its outcome depends on whether the husband will receive an appointment to Dublin with the rank of ambassador. Claire has both the most romantic and the most terrible memories of twenty-five years ago with Ireland. By a strange coincidence, in the crowd she increasingly sees a familiar face from the past, although it is known for certain that this person died long ago...