by Marie Darrieussecq · P.O.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782846822091
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«Tom est mort» is the psychological novel by Marie Darrieussecq, published by P.O.L in paperback (256 pages, in French).
After the death in Sydney of Tom, a four-and-a-half-year-old boy, his mother tries ten years later to reconstruct her son's memory by writing a narrative. Told by that French woman exiled in Australia, the novel explores grief, the fragility of memories and the difficulty of naming the unbearable, with sober, intimate prose.
The original French-language edition was published in 2007 and the cover identifies the work as 'roman'.
It will appeal to those seeking an intimate novel about grief within contemporary French literature.
Marie Darrieussecq is a French writer. She is also a translator, and has practised as a psychoanalyst.
