by Anne Tyler · ISBN 9782234074088
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«Les adieux pour débutants» is the novel by Anne Tyler, published by Stock in 2014, in French (211 pages).
After a childhood in the shadow of an authoritarian sister, Aaron marries Dorothy, an independent woman, and lives a peaceful relationship. Dorothy's accidental death breaks that equilibrium. Aaron, an editor by profession, discovers a guide to saying goodbye and, with the apparitions of his late wife, learns to live in the present and to say goodbye.
Work translated from English (United States) by Sylvie Schneiter. It belongs to Stock's La Cosmopolite collection.
For those who read in French and appreciate contemporary narrative about grief and personal reconstruction.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
