Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails

Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails
Estelle-Sarah Bulle
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Hardback
h208 x 135mm - 304pg
5 Jul 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780374289096
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This is Antoine' s life story: an ill-fated romance between her upper-class mother and farmer father; a childhood spent deep in the countryside; the splendors and slums of Guadeloupe' s great city, Pointe-a-Pitre; the eruption of modernity; the rifts in a deeply hierarchical society under colonial rule-and the reasons she left it all behind. And to whom might she tell it? A young woman born on the outskirts of Paris yearns to understand her lineage and metis identity. Her memories of occasional childhood visits are all that connects her to her father' s home. It is at her request that old Aunt Antoine, the eccentric and indomitable matriarch of the Ezechiels, unwinds the unforgettable tale of their family and with it a rich, layered account of Guadeloupe and its diaspora over the course of the twentieth century. Spanning decades as it crosses the Atlantic, with lush language and vivid descriptions, Estelle-Sarah Bulle' s Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails examines the legacies of capitalism and colonialism, what it means to be caught between worlds, how it feels to lose our most beloved, and what stories might help us reconcile past, present, and future.
A New York Times Most Anticipated Translation of the Year Winner of the Prix Stanislas du Premier Roman and the Prix Carbet de la Caraibe and Tout-Monde"[A] promising debut . . . Distinct and memorable thanks to Grawemeyer' s finely tuned translation. This ambitious work heralds a welcome new voice. " --Publishers Weekly "Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails is a gorgeously written, enchanting meditation on the history, beauty, and resilience of an unforgettable family from Guadeloupe. Estelle-Sarah Bulle forcefully demonstrates that storytelling can lovingly assemble a self that is at once fragmented and whole. " --Naomi Jackson, author of The Star Side of Bird Hill "As a portrait of a nation that' s received little attention, it' s fascinating . . . A universal story about sibling tensions infused with plenty of history. " --Kirkus Reviews "A grand family epic. " --Le Monde "A luminous novel about roots. " --L' Humanite "Enchanting. " --Elle "Quite simply stunning. " --Lire "A melodic, endearing, and piquant novel with the flavor of true stories. " --Le Figaro Litteraire "A poetic and political epic. " --La Croix "[Estelle-Sarah Bulle] dips her pen in joyous ink, spiked with a zest of homespun Creole, to re-create the cheeky Guadeloupe of the twentieth century and the new towns around Paris, fertile soil for immigration. " --L' Express
Estelle-Sarah Bulle was born in Creteil, France, in 1974 to a West Indian father and a Belgian mother. She studied in Paris and Lyon and now resides in Val-d' Oise, France. Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails is her first novel and was awarded the Prix Stanislas and the Prix Carbet de la Caraibe et du Tout-Monde. Julia Grawemeyer is an American educator, translator, and writer whose translations have been published by Schaffner Press and the Kenyon Review. She teaches French and intercultural communication to middle school students in Columbus, Ohio.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780374289096
Published: 5 Jul 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardback
Height: 208mm
Width: 135mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 304

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