The Girl Before Her /anglais - Couverture souple

Papin, Line

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1885030835 ISBN 13 : 9781885030832

Editeur : Kaya Press, 2023

Synopsis

A coming-of-age tale of dislocation and inherited trauma from the acclaimed young French Vietnamese novelist

French Vietnamese writer Line Papin's stunning English-language debut, The Girl Before Her offers a window onto the existential anguish of displacement as experienced by a child on the cusp of becoming a woman. Uprooted without explanation from the sunshine and chaos of Hà Nội at the age of ten, the narrator finds herself adrift in the unfamiliar, gray world of France and grappling with a deep sense of uncertainty about who she is and where she belongs. Lacking the words to express her growing sense of alienation, she stops talking, then eating. She is hospitalized and almost dies from anorexia. Part meditation, part family history, part message in a bottle to her younger selves, Papin's lyrical work of autofiction explores what it takes to embrace one's multiracial, transnational self by making peace with the generations of women who've come before. The Girl Before Her is the first book to be published by Ink & Blood, a new joint imprint from Kaya Press and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network (DVAN), which aims to bring Vietnamese literary voices from across the globe to English readers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kaya Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1885030835
• ISBN 13: 9781885030832
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 132
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible