Get Well Soon
Autor*in: Roger, Marie-Sabine
Jahr: 2017
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 224 S.
Voraussichtlich verfügbar ab: 21.05.2024
- Inhalt:
- A joyful novel full of humanity from the author of Soft in the Head - a July 2016 Indie Next pick. Saved from drowning in Paris's River Seine, a sixty-something misanthrope finds himself stuck in a hospital bed for six weeks while he recovers. As he looks back on his life, the good and the bad, he makes some unexpected new acquaintances, and just when he thought life had no more suprises in store for him, he finds out he was wrong....
- Born in Bordeaux in 1957, Marie-Sabine Roger has been writing books for both adults and children since 1989. Soft in the Head was made into a 2010 film, My Afternoons with Margueritte, directed by Jean Becker, starring Gerard Depardieu. Get Well Soon won the Prix des lecteurs de l'Express in 2012 and will be published by Pushkin Press in 2017. Frank Wynne is an award-winning translator from French and Spanish. He has won the IMPAC Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Scott Moncrieff Prize. He translated Marie-Sabine Roger's Soft in the Head. He has also translated a number of Spanish and Latin American authors, including Tomás Eloy Martínez, Isabel Allende, Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Tomás Gonzalez, whose In the Beginning Was the Sea is published by Pushkin Press.
Titelinformationen
Titel: Get Well Soon
Autor*in: Roger, Marie-Sabine
Übersetzer*in: Wynne, Frank
Verlag: Lightning Source Inc
ISBN: 9781782272892
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Romane & Erzählungen
Max. Ausleihdauer: 21 Tage