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Highlights
- The premise is simple, but the story quickly becomes surreal: the narrator's husband leaves to buy a loaf of bread and never returns.
- About the Author: Marie Darrieussecqis a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and teaches in Lille.
- 154 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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About the Book
An astonishing work of fiction from France's "best young novelist"("The New Yorker"), the internationally acclaimed author of "Pig Tales", this novel chronicles a woman's descent into madness brought on by the loss of a great love.Book Synopsis
The premise is simple, but the story quickly becomes surreal: the narrator's husband leaves to buy a loaf of bread and never returns. Searching for him day and night, forced to explain his absence to friends and family, the unnamed narrator withdraws into a mysterious universe ruled more by image than language. In the wake of her husband's disappearance, the world becomes a strangely immaterial place, shapeless, devoid of sentiment. Once-familiar territories become terrifying: the supermarket, the beach, the bedroom. Even the wedding album has changed: her husband's face now appears altered in every shot.
An innovative, daring book on the physicality of absence, My Phantom Husband explores familiar reactions to sudden loss and the disruption of daily routine. Weaving an intricate web of exquisite metaphors and mesmerizing visions, Marie Darrieussecq once again astounds readers with her exceptional imagination and stylistic genius.
About the Author
Marie Darrieussecqis a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and teaches in Lille.