From the bestselling author of Lullaby'Riveting.' Evening Standard'Explosive.' Mail on Sunday'Thrilling.' Sunday Times'A must-read.' VogueHer obsessions devour her. She is helpless to stop them... Adèle has a seemingly enviable life. She is a respected journalist, living in a flawless Paris apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of 'having it all', Adèle is bored. She begins to orchestrate her life around one-night stands and extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until her compulsions threaten to consume her altogether.
Les mer
From the bestselling author of Lullaby'Riveting.' Evening Standard'Explosive.' Mail on Sunday'Thrilling.' Sunday Times'A must-read.' VogueHer obsessions devour her.
Written in prose of elegant but never bloodless neutrality . . . [Adèle] leads readers through the labyrinth of desire into an understanding of solitude, isolation and the search for authenticity as our common fate.
Les mer
From the bestselling author of Lullaby, the prizewinning debut novel about all our attempts to discover who we are - deep down - and what we actually want.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780571331963
Publisert
2019-10-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
156 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Oversetter

Biographical note

Leïla Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.