Nancy Huston

Best-seller na França, vencedor do Prêmio Femina e finalista do Prêmio Goncourt"Um adulto nada mais é do que uma criança que sofreu." Essa é a principal idéia por trás de Marcas de Nascença, o 11º romance de Nancy Huston, autora canadense radicada na França. Partindo de uma idéia singela e genial, a escritora conta a …

The year is 1957 and the place is Paris, where the psychic wounds of World War II have barely begun to heal. Saffie, a young German woman, becomes maid, then wife, to Raphael, a privileged French musician who finds her remoteness provocative and irresistable. One day in the old Jewish quarter of the city, where she …

Seit frühester Kindheit hat die Schriftstellerin Nada das Gefühl, daß ihre Seele verstimmt ist und sie nie die Erwartungen ihrer Mutter erfüllen wird. In der Musik nennt man diesen Zustand "Scordatura", eine Verstimmung der Saiten. Akribisch hält Nada ihre Andersartigkeit in einem Tagebuch fest. Unterbrochen werden …

Slow Emergencies opens with an unforgettable scene of childbirth, evokes a loving connection between a woman and man and their children, and describes an irresistible impulse to create a distance from and ultimately to abandon one's family. This powerful, seemingly negative, energy is nevertheless always a movement …