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Description

How, this novel asks, can you imagine the worst when you are young and life is sunny? The answer lies in the telling of The Living, in which a young mother, with her teenage brother, takes her two small children to a deserted quarry on a hot summer afternoon. Seen through the eyes of the brother, Benoît, the drama plays out with all the power and seeming inevitability of classical tragedy, made all the more intense by the blistering heat of the day. On that blazing hot summer day Benoît, to entertain his nephews, seats them in a gondola and sends them down a cableway to the pylon on the other side of the river. The harrowing story of what follows is narrated in Pascale Kramer’s artfully simple yet transparent prose, evoking the deep reservoirs of feeling that family members cannot voice, perhaps even to themselves. The Living is filled with the vitality of summer. At the same time, it reveals suffering at its most pure and most volatile as the affected people wonder, in the wake of tragedy, whether they should subsist with the living or with the dead.

Author Biography:

Pascale Kramer’s Les vivants received excellent reviews in the French and Francophone press and won the Prix Lipp, Switzerland’s most prestigious literary prize. Kramer is the Swiss author of several other books in French, including Manu and Onze ans plus tard. Tamsin Black has translated many books, including Marie NDiaye’s Rosie Carpe, available in a Bison Books edition.
Release date NZ
December 1st, 2007
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
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  • Translated by Tamsin Black
Illustrations
None
Pages
147
Dimensions
144x222x12
ISBN-13
9780803227743
Product ID
2415367

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