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Real Life - by Adeline Dieudonné (Paperback)

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  • When the innocence of fairy tales meets the terror of a Stephen King thriller... This international bestseller by French author Adeline Dieudonné is one girl's bitingly funny coming-of-age tale within a violent, savage family.
  • About the Author: Adeline Dieudonné lives in Brussels.
  • 266 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Coming of Age

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This international bestseller by French author Adeline Dieudonné is one girl's bitingly funny coming-of-age tale within a violent, savage family.



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When the innocence of fairy tales meets the terror of a Stephen King thriller...
This international bestseller by French author Adeline Dieudonné is one girl's bitingly funny coming-of-age tale within a violent, savage family.

At home there are four bedrooms: one for her, one for her little brother Sam, one for her parents, and one for the carcasses. Her father is a big-game hunter, a powerful predator, and her mother is submissive to her violent husband's demands. The young narrator spends the days with Sam, playing in the shells of cars dumped for scrap and listening out for the melody of the ice-cream truck, until a brutal accident shatters their world. The uncompromising pen of Adeline Dieudonné wields flashes of brilliance as she brings her characters to life in a world that is both dark and sensual. This breathtaking debut is a sharp and funny coming-of-age tale in which reality and fantasy collide.



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"Dieudonné's startling debut tackles dark themes with grace, wit, and sincerity. A deeply disturbing, furiously tender, and darkly comedic debut."--Kirkus Reviews

"Transforming the traditional coming-of-age novel, Adeline Dieudonné's successful first work is a captivating, unnerving take on emancipation and the hope of escaping violence."--France-Amérique

"While this is a story about vulnerability and the victims of domestic abuse, it is also a story of courage. Dieudonné's debut novel, translated terrifically by Roland Glasser is, at once, fearsome and with heart." --Brigid O'Dea, Irish Times

"Real Life is a raw, dark, and profoundly powerful coming of age tale. Adeline Dieudonné brings to life a heroine for the modern world. And, after you read the first sentence, you won't be able to leave the girl's side, not until it ends, all of it." --Susan Schlesinger, Books on the Square (Providence, RI)

"By turns brutal and subtle, this little gem of a novel packs a deceptive punch. It's a tale of shattered innocence and the dramatic shift from childhood to puberty to adulthood, though even at its most violent, there is an undeniable thread of optimism that wends throughout. Sibling love, growing pains, goats, alienation, taxidermy--as in real life, it's all here." --Jake Cumsky-Whitlock, Solid State Books (Washington, DC)

"Brutal and impossible to put down. This young narrator takes you with her through the turbulence that is her family home with a touch of whimsy and then determined strength to save her brother (as well as herself) from the monster that is their father. A quick read that stays with you well beyond the last page." --Nadine Melahn, CoffeeTree Books (Morehead, KY)

"A magnificent heroine of freedom and intelligence." --Bruno Corty, Le Figaro

"A sense of rhythm, hard-hitting words, and vitriolic humor." --Coline Serreau, director of Chaos

"Always at the limit between the naïveté of a child and the profundity of those of us who have already seen too much." --Véronique Cardi

"It's an impressive debut novel, poetic and violent at the same time, with great visual force." --Giovanna Canton

"I read the novel in one go. What a hypnotizing voice!" --Cristina de Stefano

"Bitter, raw and fast-paced: a tale that's filled with a hunger for life." --Alain Lorfévre, La Libre Belgique

"This story is inevitably touching and disturbing, since it meticulously displays the mechanisms of physical and moral domestic violence through a cruel, perverse and violent father. The author's style is slick, poetic, metaphoric, beautiful and brutal at once, much like life can be, too." --Light and Smell Blog

"When the innocence of fairy tales meets the terror of a Stephen King thriller." --Bernard Lehut, RTL

"A tremendous energy. A new voice. Mind-blowing." --Pierre Assouline, La République des Livres

"Don't miss out on this debut novel, both cruel and fierce. Adeline Dieudonné makes her entry into literature like a warrior." --Jérôme Garcin, Le Nouvel Observateur




About the Author



Adeline Dieudonné lives in Brussels. Real Life, her debut novel, was published in France in Autumn 2018 and has since been awarded most of the major French literary prizes: the prestigious Prix du Roman FNAC, the Prix Rossel, the Prix Renaudot des Lycéens, the Prix Goncourt―Le Choix de la Belgique, the Prix des Étoiles du Parisien, the Prix Première Plume, and the Prix Filigrane, a French prize for a work of high literary quality with wide appeal. Dieudonné also performs as a stand-up comedian.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.9 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 266
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Coming of Age
Publisher: World Editions
Format: Paperback
Author: Adeline Dieudonné
Language: English
Street Date: February 4, 2020
TCIN: 1006604050
UPC: 9781642860474
Item Number (DPCI): 247-29-4456
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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