My Little Husband
Publisher
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Éditions Grasset
Parution date
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2007
EAN
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9782246731412
Description
“An eccentric novel, full of suspense and dark humor.”—Livres Hebdo
From the author of Bitter Moon (Lune de fiel), one of today’s foremost novelists and “nouveaux philosophes,” comes a cynical modern fable on the limits of virility and the decline of the dominant male, emasculated by wife and family.
It is the happiest day of Leon’s life: the beautiful Solange has agreed to marry him. A “flamboyant valkyrie,” she is a head taller than he, but he doesn’t mind having to stand on tiptoes to kiss the bride. He is the proudest husband and soon to be the happiest father. But as his wife’s belly grows, Leon shrinks inexorably, and it seems that his doctors can’t do anything to help. When he is a veritable Lilliputian, no longer able to perform his marital or fatherly duties, he becomes a victim of his family’s disdain and abuse. The description of his travails is by turns hilarious, bleakly comic, and cruel, depicting one husband’s heroical journey from the altar to the broom closet.
Foreign rights sold to Ugo Guanda in Italy, Siedler in Germany, Bertrand in Brazil, Astarti in Greece, Arneberg Forlag in Norway, Trei in Romania, Algoritam in Croatia, Arte in Korea, and Boom in the Netherlands.
Author
Pascal Bruckner : Pascal Bruckner’s Lune de fiel (Evil Angels, Grove Press, 1987) was adapted for the screen by Roman Polanski as Bitter Moon. His other translated works include The Divine Child (Little, Brown, 1994) and The Tears of the White Man: Compassion as Contempt (The Free Press, 1986). He has won numerous prizes, including the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Medicis, and the Grand Prix de l’Académie Française.
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