A Sunday In Ville-d'avray

A Sunday In Ville-d'avray
John Cullen, Dominique Barberis
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Paperback
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5 Aug 2021 UK
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9781911547969
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Echoing the acclaimed and unsettling film Sundays and Cybele from 1962, A Sunday in Ville-d' Avray is suffused with the same feeling of disquiet: Two sisters meet as the light is fading in a detached house in Ville-d' Avray, each filled with the memory of their childhood dreams and fears, their insatiable desire for the romantic, for wild landscapes worthy of Jane Eyre, and for a mad love, all concealed beneath the appearance of a sensible life. They confide in each other. One tells of an unlikely meeting in this seemingly peaceful provincial town. The other recounts, to her sister' s amazement, her wanderings around the Fausses-Reposes forest, the Corot Ponds, and the suburban train stations, and the lurking dangers she encountered there. In this arresting novel reminiscent of Simenon, Dominique Barberis explores the great depths of the human soul, troubled like the waters of the ponds.
"Superb. . . Dominique Barberis' s novel conjures the smell of grass after rain, of dead leaves burning in a backyard, the mild, melancholy scents of the Parc de Saint-Cloud at the start of autumn. " -Sud Ouest "An unsettling text on memory and the marks of regret. . . a novel with a singular evocative power. " -Le Monde des livres "This atmospheric novel plunges us into the folds of our own emotions thanks to a richly evocative style. . . It has the troubling melancholy of Modiano' s novels and the charm of Rohmer' s films. " -Gael
Dominique Barberis is a French novelist. Her first book, La Ville, was published by Arlea in 1996. Eight further books have been published by Gallimard. Les Kangourous was adapted for film by Anne Fontaine under the title Entre ses mains. Quelque chose a cacher won the Prix des Deux Magots and the Prix de la Ville de Nantes in 2008. In 2018 her novel L' annee de l' education sentimentale was awarded the Prix Jean-Freustie / Fondation de France. Barberis also teaches writing workshops at the Sorbonne. John Cullen is the translator of many books from Spanish, French, German, and Italian, including Susanna Tamaro' s Follow Your Heart, Philippe Claudel' s Brodeck, Carla Guelfenbein' s In the Distance with You, Juli Zeh' s Empty Hearts, Patrick Modiano' s Villa Triste, and Kamel Daoud' s The Meursault Investigation. He lives on the Shoreline in southern Connecticut.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781911547969
Published: 5 Aug 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Daunt Books
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128

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