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The Book of Mother

- Longlisted for the International Booker Prize
Af: Violaine Huisman Engelsk Hardback

The Book of Mother

- Longlisted for the International Booker Prize
Af: Violaine Huisman Engelsk Hardback
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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes - in the bestselling tradition of Jeannette Walls''s The Glass Castle.

A prize-winning tour de force when it came out in France, Violaine Huisman''s remarkable debut novel is about a daughter''s inextinguishable love for her magnetic, mercurial mother. Beautiful and charismatic, Catherine, aka ''Maman'', smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard and loves too extravagantly. During a joyful and chaotic childhood in Paris, her daughter Violaine wouldn''t have it any other way.

But when Maman is hospitalised after a third divorce and breakdown, everything changes. Even as Violaine and her sister long for their mother''s return, once she''s back Maman''s violent mood swings and flagrant disregard for personal boundaries soon turn their home into an emotional landmine. As the story of Catherine''s own traumatic childhood and coming of age unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait of a mother as irresistible as she is impossible, as triumphant as she is transgressive.

With spectacular ferocity of language, a streak of dark humor and stunning emotional bravery, The Book of Mother is an exquisitely wrought story of a mother''s dizzying heights and devastating lows, and a daughter who must hold her memory close in order to let go.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes - in the bestselling tradition of Jeannette Walls''s The Glass Castle.

A prize-winning tour de force when it came out in France, Violaine Huisman''s remarkable debut novel is about a daughter''s inextinguishable love for her magnetic, mercurial mother. Beautiful and charismatic, Catherine, aka ''Maman'', smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard and loves too extravagantly. During a joyful and chaotic childhood in Paris, her daughter Violaine wouldn''t have it any other way.

But when Maman is hospitalised after a third divorce and breakdown, everything changes. Even as Violaine and her sister long for their mother''s return, once she''s back Maman''s violent mood swings and flagrant disregard for personal boundaries soon turn their home into an emotional landmine. As the story of Catherine''s own traumatic childhood and coming of age unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait of a mother as irresistible as she is impossible, as triumphant as she is transgressive.

With spectacular ferocity of language, a streak of dark humor and stunning emotional bravery, The Book of Mother is an exquisitely wrought story of a mother''s dizzying heights and devastating lows, and a daughter who must hold her memory close in order to let go.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780349012339
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0349012334
Udg. Dato: 7 okt 2021
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 241mm
Højde: 163mm
Forlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato: 7 okt 2021
Forfatter(e): Violaine Huisman
Forfatter(e) Violaine Huisman


Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur


ISBN-13 9780349012339


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 224


Udgave


Længde 26mm


Bredde 241mm


Højde 163mm


Udg. Dato 7 okt 2021


Oplagsdato 7 okt 2021


Forlag Little, Brown Book Group

Kategori sammenhænge