Europa Editions, 2015.— 165 p. — ISBN: 1609452496 (ISBN13: 9781609452490) Jennifer Rappaport (Translator) A number 1 bestseller in France and translated into over twenty languages, Billie is one of the most beloved French novels to be published in recent years. A brilliant evocation of contemporary Paris and a moving tale of friendship, Anna Gavalda’s new novel tells the story...
Chatto & Windus, 2010.— 473 p. — ISBN: 0701183527 (ISBN13: 9780701183523) Consolation (La Consolante*) was the bestselling French novel in 2008, with sales of over half a million copies and translations into thirty-two languages. Darker and more complex than Hunting and Gathering (Ensemble, c’est tout), but just as dazzling, the second novel by the enchantress Anna Gavalda...
Europa Editions, 2011.— 144 p. — ISBN: 1609459547 (ISBN13: 9781609459543) Alison Anderson (Translator) Simon, Garance and Lola flee a family wedding that promises to be dull to visit their younger brother, Vincent, who is working as a guide at a chateau in the heart of the charming Tours countryside. For a few hours, they forget about kids, spouses, work and the many demands...
Prize-winning author Anna Gavalda has galvanized the literary world with an exquisite genius for storytelling. Here, in her epic new novel of intimate lives-and filled with the "humanity and wit" (Marie Claire) that has made it a bestselling sensation in France-Gavalda explores the twists of fate that connect four people in Paris. Comprised of a starving artist, her shy,...
Riverhead Books, 2007.— 488 p. — ISBN: 159448144X (ISBN13: 9781594481444) Alison Anderson (Translator) Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Downstairs in a beautiful, ornate apartment, lives Philibert Marquet de la Durbellière, a shy, erudite, upper-class man with an unlikely flatmate in the shape...
Hailed by Voici as "a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker," prize-winning Anna Gavalda has caused an international sensation with this dazzling collection of short stories selling over 700,000 copies in her native France. With arresting naturalism, a lively variety of perspectives, Gavalda writes simply-and beautifully-of human beings longing to connect. Gavalda has a knack...
Europa Editions, 2015.— 224 p. — ASIN B0113LYCWG Tina A. Kover (Translator) Mathilde is twenty-four. She has abandoned her studies in art history in lieu of a menial job and lives in a house she shares with twin sisters. One day she forgets her bag in a café and a week later an unknown man returns it to her. Following this encounter, Mathilde decides to throw caution to the wind...
The prize-winning author of I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere returns with a novel of an abandoned wife, and the profound relationship that unfolds between her and her father-in-law.
Anna Gavalda's Someone I Loved is a hauntingly intimate look at the intolerably painful, yet occasionally valuable consequences that adultery can have on a marriage and the individuals...
Riverhead Trade, 2005.— 325 p. — ISBN: 1594480419 (ISBN13: 9781594480416) Catherine Evans (Translator) Anna Gavalda has been hailed as an author "graced with the Gallic virtues of dry wit and almost involuntary elegance" (Vogue). Now, the prize-winning author of I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere returns with a novel of an abandoned wife, and the profound relationship...
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