by Siri Hustvedt · ACTES SUD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742797226
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«Un été sans les hommes» is the literary novel by Siri Hustvedt, published by Actes Sud in paperback (215 pages, in French).
When her husband asks for a pause, Mia, a New York poet, leaves New York and spends the summer in Minnesota. There her mother lives in a residence; Mia teaches a poetry workshop to seven teenagers and lives with a group of octogenarian widows. Through these female relationships, she revisits her past, love and her identity.
The English original, The Summer Without Men, was translated into French by Christine Le Bœuf.
Aimed at the general public and readers of contemporary fiction with a feminist perspective and female characters from different generations.
Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros (2006), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010), The Summer Without Men (2011), Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), The Blazing World (2014), Memories of the Future (2019), and Ghost Stories (2026). What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.
