French List #: The Red Sofa

French List #: The Red Sofa
David Ball, Nicole Ball, Michele Lesbre
RRP:
NZ$ 27.99
Our Price:
NZ$ 23.79
Paperback
h203 x 127mm - 118pg
15 Aug 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780857428769
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In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects on her past with Gyl and their patriotic struggles, as well as on the neighbor she has just left behind, Clemence Barrot. Rocked by the train' s movements Anne is moved by her memory of Clemence, who is old and whose memory is failing, but who has not lost her taste for life and adventure. Ensconced on her red sofa at home, Clemence loves to tell Anne her life story, mourning lost loved ones and celebrating the lives of brave, rebellious women who went before her. Eventually, Anne' s train trip returns her home having not found Gyl, but having found something much more meaningful-herself.
Michele Lesbre is a French writer living in Paris. Nicole and David Ball have translated many books from French, including We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm, also published by Seagull Books.

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