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08/02/21 10h15
The first North Irish woman to win the Man Booker Prize, Anna Burns composes a novel in which a teenager recounts in her own words the violence of a society torn apart by civil war.
A girl walks with her nose deep in her book, indifferent to what surrounds her. The atmosphere of his city paralyzed by an endless civil war has become unbreathable. This girl, a man saw her. And the trouble begins.
From the first page, the causticity of the writing seizes us. Anna Burns brings us the angry and sarcastic monologue of this 18-year-old girl who would like to be left alone – a monologue translated with virtuosity by the writer Jakuta Alikavazovic. The teenager finds herself trapped because an older, married man has spotted her and is harassing her. But the neighborhood gossips blame her for what happened to her.
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