Geneviève Damas

If You Cross the River (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel
Übersetzer: Gladding, Jody

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From celebrated Belgian author Geneviève Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of words.

Illiterate, isolated, and held at arm's length by a bitter father, François Sorrente has spent his seventeen years within narrow confines. By day he tends the family farm's pigs; by night he manages the household chores. Still, François can't help but wonder about the wider world and his place in it. Who was his mother, who he remembers not at all? And why is the opposite shore of the river, where his beloved older sister disappeared many years ago, forbidden to him?

Propelled by curiosity, François turns to the eclectic denizens of his town to help make sense of these mysteries. He begins reading lessons with a melancholy curé, falls into an affair with a village woman, and affectionately confides his secrets to a velvet-eared piglet named Hyménée. As François questions both his origins and the course of his life, he begins to unlock the true story of his mother and sister, and comes to reinvent himself.

Exquisitely translated from the French by poet Jody Gladding, If You Cross the River is a magical debut.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571319357
• Artikelnr.: 69025320

Autorenporträt

Geneviève Damas is a Belgian comedian, playwright, and novelist. After completing a degree in law, she turned to theater and has also acted and directed. Her first novel, If You Cross the River, has received wide international acclaim and was awarded the Prix Rossel in Belgium and the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, which honors the expression of cultural diversity and editorial work on the five continents.