by Pierre Péju · Piper Verlag GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783492046190
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«Die kleine Kartäuserin» is the novel by Pierre Péju, published by Piper in hardback (192 pages, in German).
The bookseller Étienne Vollard accidentally runs over Éva, a girl who falls into a coma; tormented by guilt, he visits her in hospital and reads her stories without rest, and there he meets Thérèse, her mother. When Éva wakes up, the three discover that their lives have changed: a novel about childhood, solitude and the acceptance of differences.
The novel was originally published in 2002 as «La Petite chartreuse» and was translated into German by Elsbeth Ranke; it won the Prix du Livre Inter in 2003.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in intimate stories about solitude, childhood and the healing power of reading.
Pierre Péju is a French philosopher, novelist and essayist. Born in Lyon, he studied at the Sorbonne. He has published a number of works in different literary genres, the best-known of which are two prize-winning novels Le rire de l’ogre and La petite Chartreuse. Both titles are studied in French schools and lycees, and both have been translated into English, the former by Euan Cameron and the latter by Ina Rilke.
