Brigitte Giraud

Live Fast (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel
Übersetzer: Stockwell, Cory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Prix Goncourt

A powerful autobiographical novel of loss, the incandescent love that remains, and the small decisions that define the course of fate

Paced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud's tense and haunting novel follows one woman's quest to comprehend the motorcycle accident that took the life of her partner Claude at age 41.

The narrator of Live Fast recounts the chain of events that led up to the fateful accident, tracing the tiny, maddening twists of fate that might have prevented its tragic outcome. Each chapter asks the rhetorical question, what if, departing from an image or memory from early years in Algeria during the war, to moving to the suburbs of Lyon, buying and renovating a home where they could put down their suitcase for a whole life. A sensitive elegy to her husband and a subtle, precise vision of a lasting love, Live Fast is a moving and electrifying portrait of two people caught up in the mundane activities of life, forgetting that living itself can be dangerous.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063346741
• Artikelnr.: 70647556

Autorenporträt

Brigitte Giraud is a French writer and novelist and the author of fourteen books. She received the 2022 Prix Goncourt for Live Fast, which was also a big bestseller in France. Live Fast is her first book to be published in English.

Rezensionen

"A gripping novel about grief and loss...Written with forensic precision and journalistic detail, Giraud's elegiac novel is about the questions that haunt us no matter how much we may try to rid ourselves of them." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"An exemplary work of autofiction...An indelible tableau of grief." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"...Literary bargaining par excellence. Even knowing the crushing truth, we read fast, hoping the narrator can identify precisely which butterfly's wing to catch in midair and change her whole story." - Booklist