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Pascale Kramer
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Description for Child
Paperback. An emotionally implosive novel about confronting the death of a loved one and the possibility of hope a child brings. Translator(s): Black, Tamsin. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 157.
"Intense and bravely uncompromising. An adult study of pain, thwarted affection, and guarded privacies in a world at the edge of violent public breakdown. An impressive achievement." --DAVID MALOUF, author of Ransom: A Novel and The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World Simone and Claude live in a house with a lush garden, surrounded by a hedge that barely protects them from the growing violence and unrest in their low-income neighborhood. Simone mourns the loss of youth and possibility as Claude, a gym teacher who has been diagnosed with cancer, edges toward death. This is ... Read more
"Intense and bravely uncompromising. An adult study of pain, thwarted affection, and guarded privacies in a world at the edge of violent public breakdown. An impressive achievement." --DAVID MALOUF, author of Ransom: A Novel and The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World Simone and Claude live in a house with a lush garden, surrounded by a hedge that barely protects them from the growing violence and unrest in their low-income neighborhood. Simone mourns the loss of youth and possibility as Claude, a gym teacher who has been diagnosed with cancer, edges toward death. This is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781934137550
SKU
V9781934137550
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Ref
99-15
About Pascale Kramer
Pascale Kramer, recipient of the 2017 Swiss Grand Prize for Literature, is the author of fourteen books, including three novels published in English: The Living, The Child, and Autopsy of a Father. Born in Geneva, she has worked in Los Angeles, and now lives in Paris, where she directs a documentary film festival about children's rights. Translator Tamsin Black ... Read more
Reviews for Child
"You need to read Pascale Kramer's books because they take you on a journey. You board a small ship that enters the human body, and what you felt while reading follows you for days after you've closed the book."
Elle (France) "A singularly moving and disturbing novel about the ambiguity of feelings."
Le Monde (France) "A knock-out."
Madame Figaro (France) ... Read more
Elle (France) "A singularly moving and disturbing novel about the ambiguity of feelings."
Le Monde (France) "A knock-out."
Madame Figaro (France) ... Read more