by David Vann · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782351780466
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«Désolations» is the novel by David Vann, published by Gallmeister in paperback (296 pages, in French).
On the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, Irene and Gary have led thirty years of muted life beside a glacial lake. Gary, obsessed with building his dream cabin on a desolate islet, drags his wife along despite the migraines that torment her. Their daughter Rhoda witnesses her parents' tense standoff as an early, violent winter closes in on them.
David Vann's second novel, translated into French by Laura Derajinski. His previous work, «Sukkwan Island», won the Prix Médicis 2010.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and rural-set stories with family conflicts.
David Vann is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L'Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for The New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E!.
