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The Foundling
Agnès Desarthe
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Description for The Foundling
Paperback. From the author of Chez Moi, a tenderly drawn novel of loss and loneliness, friendship and love Translator(s): Hunter, Adriana. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 171.
Jerome is a calm man - at least, that's what he'd always believed. But when his daughter's boyfriend dies in an accident, he is overwhelmed by unexpected grief. As he struggles to make sense of the loss and his own reaction to it, he finds himself assailed by emotions and memories he has allowed to lie dormant: the residual feelings for his ex-wife; a baffling new attraction to a stranger; a precarious friendship with a retired policeman; and, above all, unsettling questions about his own past and the family he never knew. In returning to the forests of ... Read more
Jerome is a calm man - at least, that's what he'd always believed. But when his daughter's boyfriend dies in an accident, he is overwhelmed by unexpected grief. As he struggles to make sense of the loss and his own reaction to it, he finds himself assailed by emotions and memories he has allowed to lie dormant: the residual feelings for his ex-wife; a baffling new attraction to a stranger; a precarious friendship with a retired policeman; and, above all, unsettling questions about his own past and the family he never knew. In returning to the forests of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846274121
SKU
V9781846274121
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About Agnès Desarthe
AGNÈS DESARTHE was born in Paris in 1966 and has written many books for children and teenagers, as well as adult fiction. She won the Prix du Livre Inter in 1996 for Un Secret Sans Importance and has had three previous novels translated into English: Five Photos of My Wife, which was short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and ... Read more
Reviews for The Foundling
The Foundling has enough plot to count as a page-turner, yet it still surprises with occasional profundities... Desarthe's portrayal of a young woman devastated by grief is potent... translator Adriana Hunter's rendering of the prose is flawless
Arifa Akbar
Independent
A superb study of grief that is both personal and national; a heartbreaking twist reveals the unspoken ... Read more
Arifa Akbar
Independent
A superb study of grief that is both personal and national; a heartbreaking twist reveals the unspoken ... Read more