Geneviève Brisac writes like a slipped smile. L'Express Winner Of The Prix Femina In a small flat in Paris, a single mother, Nouk, lives with her son. As winter sets in, she invents a fairytale Christmas. But reality keeps breaking through the brittle facade that Nouk has constructed. This... Read more
Published: 2000
Pages: 158
Paperback: 9780714530499
Geneviève Brisac writes like a slipped smile.
L'Express
Winner Of The Prix Femina
In a small flat in Paris, a single mother, Nouk, lives with her son. As winter sets in, she invents a fairytale Christmas. But reality keeps breaking through the brittle facade that Nouk has constructed.
This bleakly tender novel tackles the complicated fears and emotions experienced by every single parent. It follows the life of a woman at the edge of her resources: a mother with everything to lose.
Geneviève Brisac lives in where she is a literary critic for Le Monde as well as a short-story writer and novelist. Her published books to date are:
Madame Placard, Paris, Gallimard, 1989.
Les filles, Paris, Gallimard, 1997.
Week-end de chasse à la mère, Paris, Seuil, 1998.
Une année avec mon père, Paris, Éd. de l'Olivier, 2010.
Pour qui vous prenez-vous ?, Paris, Éd. de l'Olivier, 2001.
Petite, Paris, Éditions Points, 2015
