The Book of Mother: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize

ISBN-13: 9780349012315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str.

Violaine Huisman

Opis

'Marvelous, superbly affective ... A labor of love, which considers primal conflict [between a mother and her daughter] with a tender psychological acuity' New Yorker

Recenzje

Captures a filial love as fierce and frank as its central figure New Yorker

O autorze

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.