by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt · Albin Michel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226173621
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«Odette Toulemonde et autres histoires» is the short story collection by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, published by Albin Michel in paperback (288 pages, in French).
The title story presents Odette Toulemonde, a Belgian shop assistant happy despite her modest life, and Balthazar Balsan, a successful writer who is not. Their chance encounter will change their lives. The volume brings together eight stories about women —shop assistants, millionaires, disillusioned wives, a barefoot princess— in search of love and happiness.
Published on 2 November 2006 in France, the book is listed in catalogue as short fiction and within the literature and fiction section.
For readers of contemporary French fiction who enjoy short stories centred on female characters.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
