by Patrick Lapeyre · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070446223
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«La vie est brève et le désir sans fin» is the novel by Patrick Lapeyre, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (349 pages, in French).
A novel about Louis Blériot, a married forty-one-year-old man tormented by his relationship with Nora, a young English woman who left him and returns two years later. Lapeyre portrays romantic suffering and obsession from a male perspective, with subtle prose that explores infidelity, waiting, and the fragility of the stories we tell ourselves.
The work was awarded the Prix Femina 2010. Paperback edition in the Folio collection, originally published in 2010.
Recommended for readers of contemporary literary fiction and intimate novels that delve into couple relationships.
Patrick Lapeyre is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 2010, for his seventh novel, La vie est brève et le désir sans fin.
