The Book of Mother Huisman Violaine
Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker PrizeA New York Times Notable BookA Library Journal Best Book of 2021A "marvelous...superbly effective" (The New Yorker) debut novel about a young woman…
Specifikacia The Book of Mother Huisman Violaine
Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker PrizeA New York Times Notable BookA Library Journal Best Book of 2021A "marvelous...superbly effective" (The New Yorker) debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes.Met by rave reviews in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and more, this stunning translation of Violaine Huisman's "witty, immersive autofiction showcases a Parisian childhood with a charismatic, depressed parent" (Oprah Daily). Beautiful and magnetic, Catherine, a.k.a. "Maman," smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly, and her daughter Violaine wouldn't have it any other way.But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and a breakdown, everything changes. Even as Violaine