Hunting and Gathering
Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Philibert Marquet de La Durbellière is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum. One evening he overcomes his own excruciating reticence to rescue Camille, unconscious, from her freezing garret, and install her in the large, ornate apartment he is caretaking downstairs. He already has an unlikely flatmate, the foul-mouthed, talented working-class young chef, Franck, who is made more obnoxious by guilt about the beloved grandmother he's had to put in a home. Together, this curious, damaged little qua…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-09-949407-2
- EAN: 9780099494072
- Produktnummer: 2545255
- Verlag: Vintage Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.3 cm x D3.3 cm 338 g
- Gewicht: 338
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Born in 1970, Anna Gavalda was a teacher whose collection of stories, I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere, shot her to fame (published in Vintage together with her novella, Someone I Loved). Her novel Hunting and Gathering (Ensemble c'est tout) was a bestseller in several countries, selling over two million copies, and was made into a film. She is also the author of the novel Consolation. Her books have been translated into thirty-six languages. The mother of two children, she lives and writes just outside Paris.
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