Listen: A Novel - Couverture souple

Bronwasser, Sacha

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143138464 ISBN 13 : 9780143138464

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2025

Synopsis

In 1989, twenty-year-old Marie jumps at the chance to work as au pair in Paris-even though it means dropping out of her prestigious art programme in the Netherlands. The city, the language, the complicated French family she works for all quickly overshadow the turmoil and pain she'd been reckoning with in school. Even as her experiences with the family in Paris begin to echo the troubles left in the Netherlands, Marie pushes on. Years later, during the 2015 attacks in Paris, Marie is shocked to recognise her former teacher, and the main reason she fled the Netherlands, pictured in aftermath of the attacks, in the exact arrondissement where her previous employers live. The past she believed she's untethered from turns out to be be a knot still capable of constricting tightly around her. Can she face Paris-and what she ran away from to get to Paris-and finally disentangle herself from her past?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sacha Bronwasser is a Dutch writer and art historian. For decades, she worked as art critic for De Volkskrant, while also curating exhibitions and writing and speaking about contemporary art for radio, television and on stage. In 2019, she made her fiction debut with the highly praised novel Niets is Gelogen, followed by the bestselling Luister (Listen) in 2023 and the short story collection De Lotgevallen in 2024. Listen was nominated for multiple literary awards, has been translated into several languages, and is currently being adapted into a feature film. Bronwasser lives on the Dutch coast. David Colmer is the translator of more than eighty book-length works of Dutch-language literature and has won many prizes for his translations, including the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, both with novelist Gerbrand Bakker.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143138464
• ISBN 13: 9780143138464
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 241
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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