A story that crosses four generations of a family, “All Your Children, Scattered” looks at how communication breaks down, and how it might be repaired.
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The novel traces landmark moments in French history, from the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 to the 1981 election of President François Mitterrand.
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Getting Lost leaves one submerged in Ernaux’s world, gasping for breath, and fighting for reason.
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Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Pina, which won the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize, is a rebuke of the romanticised ideals of Tahiti and its golden sands.
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We tend to think of guilt as having a straight-forward relationship with wrong-doing. We are taught that if you do something wrong, you will feel guilty and if you haven’t ...
Perrin has a beautiful talent for capturing the atmosphere of small-town France
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It is true that not everybody lives the same way, but some of us will for a time…
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This could be her last chance. Luc might be the best she can hope for. Or maybe she has finally just tired of defying expectations…
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Nathacha Appanah takes us on a journey through three generations of a fractured family, told from the different perspectives of a mother and her two children
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Winner of the 2020 Goncourt prize, this novel by Hervé Le Tellier feels unusually close to film
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