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Fables, memories, things he's read, things he's seen, transposed or made up, the stories gathered in this slim volume have the portrait, portraitists and the portraitees as common themes. Fremon takes the reader around the world, hopping through art history, as facts and personal memories are retold with imaginative flair for the telling detail.

Rural Iraq, during the war against the so-called Islamic State. A pregnancy out of wedlock. The young woman knows her fate is sealed. In crystalline prose May the Tigris Grieve for You enters the minds of all protagonists, before and after death.

Through a seemingly anarchic but subtly crafted chorus of female voices, from feminist thinkers in English and French, to the stranger on the street, Clara Schulman's essay blurs the boundaries between body and art, personal and political.

Eastbound maps the fast-paced story of two fugitives on the Trans-Siberian Railway, where a desperate Russian conscript hopes a chance encounter with an older French woman will offer him a line of flight.

My mother and I have been writing her obituary. We have been working on it for several years now. Before we started, she had already begun the project with my older sister. She wants to get it right.

In an anonymous French village a child loves to wander a forest where his mother may have disappeared. His father is speechless with anger, his grandmother is concealing her own story.

A masterful debut that dramatizes the role of the unconscious in artistic creation and the power of unconditional love, in a split narrative alternating between two points of view: that of a painter drawn to depict an unknown female figure who keeps on appearing under his brush, and that an anonymous woman addressing letters to an absent loved one.

Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led her to assault a refugee on the Paris metro. She too is a foreigner, now earning a living as an interpreter for asylum seekers in the outskirts of the city.

Paris, When It's Naked paints a charged, reforming world around the birth of a 'united' Europe. Of Cities & Women, Adnan's offbeat response to a commission to write an article 'On Arab Women', offers a series of fascinating reflections unfolding in letters to her editor as she travelled through Europe to Beirut.

Best-selling author of Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London joins the bus commuter crowds in this love letter to Paris, written in iPhone notes.

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Bestselling author of Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, joins the crowds commuting by bus in the city of love. Written in iPhone notes and inspired by Perec and Ernaux, this chronicle of the everyday in a year marked by terrorism and her loss of a pregnancy is also a love letter to Paris on the bus.

A dream logic rules each of these unpredictable, sensual, and surreal novellas: romps no doubt, but deeply moral and entirely unforgettable ones.

Eve out of Her Ruins" is a heartbreaking look at the dark corners of the island nation of Mauritius that tourists never see, and a poignant exploration of lives at the margins of society. Published in the UK for the first time, this celebrated novel won the 2006 Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie.

Set in a part of the island nation of Mauritius which tourists never see, this poetic thriller contrasts the perspectives of four young people desperate to escape their country's endless cycle of fear and violence.

A wry, erudite fable about the first painter to represent the saviour of humankind without his swaddling clothes with drawings by Louise Bourgeois.

Wanda (1970) a cult film classic, exerts a fascination for artists from Isabelle Huppert to Rachel Kushner to Kate Zambreno. For acclaimed French writer Nathalie Leger, the mysteries of Wanda launched an obsessive quest across continents, into archives, and through mining towns of Pennsylvania, all to get closer to the film and its maker.

Lefebvre's narrator wanders, existing on a diet of cannabis, bananas and books on oppression under the Third Reich, drawn by the spectre of an overbearing father and memories of an absent mother into a comical and troubling account of the push to be employed and the pull to write.

Inspired by the Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca who tragically died while hitchhiking in Europe to promote world peace under the motto `marriage between different peoples and nations', symbolically wearing a wedding dress. In this incandescent short book, Leger closes the third part of a trilogy begun with Suite for Barbara Loden.