Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with compassion.
The late wedding guest isn’t your cousin but a drunken chancer. The driver who gives you a lift isn’t going anywhere but off the road. Snow settles on your car in summer and the sequins found between the pages of a borrowed novel will make your fortune. Pagano’s stories weave together the mad, the mysterious and the dispossessed of a rural French community with honesty and humour. A superb, cumulative collection from a unique French voice.
Why Peirene chose to publish this book:
This is a spellbinding web of stories about people on the periphery. Pagano makes rural France her subject matter. She invokes the closeness of a local community and the links between the inhabitants’ lives. But then she reminds us how little we know of each other.
- Autor: Emmanuelle Pagano
- Kategoria: literatura piękna
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 9781908670540
- Data wydania: 2019-10-22
- Liczba stron: 128
- Tłumaczenie: Jennifer Higgins, Sophie Lewis
- Ocena: 0,0
- Wydawnictwo: Peirene Press
