Anna Gavalda, Author , trans. from the French by Catherine Evans. Riverhead $14 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59448-041-6
Gavalda's slim second novel, published here in back-to-back English and French versions, tells a spare, dialogue-based tale of a young, abandoned wife. Chloé, mother of two, is in shock after her husband, Adrien, leaves her for another...
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Anna Gavalda, Author, Karen L. Marker, Translator , trans. from the French by Karen L. Marker. Riverhead $13 (193p) ISBN 978-1-57322-355-3
Unabashed materialism is tempered by dry wit in this collection of 12 jaunty short stories about heartache and love by a young prize-winning French writer. The first-person narrators speak directly to the reader: "So anyway, as I was saying,"
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Anna Gavalda, Author, Alison Anderson, Translator , trans. from the French by Alison Anderson. Riverhead $16 (488p) ISBN 978-1-59448-144-4
Love cures all that ails the troubled trio of "no-hopers" in this sentimental second novel by French literary sensation Gavalda (Someone I Loved
; I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
). Camille, a talented artist exhausted by ennui...
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Anna Gavalda, trans. from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa Editions (Penguin, dist.), $15 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-1-60945-005-2
For those who still assume all French literature is intellectual or existential, Gavalda (Hunting and Gathering), a translator and bestselling author in Europe, is the clear antidote. Her anecdotal latest follows Simon and his two sisters, Lola and...
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Anna Gavalda, Author, Gill Rosner, Translator . Viking $14.99 (90p) ISBN 978-0-670-03672-1
Gregory Dubosc, the 13-year-old narrator of this debut novel from France, is a twice-flunked sixth-grader who hates school. But while the author assigns him a host of problems—feuding parents who focus their discord on him, abysmal grades,...
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