Violaine Huisman

Broschiertes Buch

The Book of Mother

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize

Beschreibung

A prize-winning tour de force when it came out in France, this remarkable debut novel is about a daughter's inextinguishable love for her beautiful and charismatic, Mamam, who smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard and loves too extravagantly. With dark humour and emotional bravery, Violaine Huisman tells an astonishing and ferociously compelling story about a woman who is as triumphant as she is transgressive. `An exquisite evocation of the passionate, reciprocal love that can illuminate its objects, or destroy them, or both'- Andrew Solomon `Captures a filial love as fierce and frank as its central figure' -The New Yorker `A prize-winning sensation in France ... witty, immersive' -Oprah Daily `In this tender, searching book... the daughter figures as both a character in her mother's story and its teller, taking one last survey of the wreckage, as if her own life depends on it."-New York Times Book Review "Camhi's translation from the French conveys Violaine's steady compulsion to understand and explain ... Love hurts; Huisman elegantly examines how and why." -Kirkus

Autor

Violaine Huisman was born in Paris in 1979 and has lived and worked in New York for twenty years, where she ran the Brooklyn Academy of Music's literary series and also organized multidisciplinary arts festivals across the city. Originally published by Gallimard under the title Fugitive parce que reine, her debut novel The Book of Mother was awarded multiple literary prizes including the Prix Françoise Saga and the Prix Marie Claire. Leslie Camhi is a New York-based essayist and cultural journalist who writes for the New York Times, Vogue and other publications. She is a frequent contributor to artists' monographs and museum catalogues. The Book of Mother is her first book-length translation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 127mm x 197mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9780349012315
• ISBN-10: 0349012318
• Artikelnr.: 60587274