by Pierre Péju · Piper Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783492248716
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«Die kleine Kartäuserin» is the novel by Pierre Péju, published by Piper Verlag GmbH in paperback (189 pages, in German).
The bookseller Étienne Vollard witnesses a girl, Eva, being run over in front of his shop. Though not at fault, he feels compelled to visit her every day while she lies in a coma; he reads to her and tells her stories. Between the bookseller, the girl and her mother, a relationship takes shape marked by guilt, loneliness and the need for connection.
Translated from the French by Elsbeth Ranke, the novel was originally published in 2002 as «La Petite chartreuse» and won the Prix du Livre Inter in 2003.
For readers of contemporary fiction who enjoy intimate stories about books, guilt and human bonds.
Pierre Péju is a French philosopher, novelist and essayist. Born in Lyon, he studied at the Sorbonne. He has published a number of works in different literary genres, the best-known of which are two prize-winning novels Le rire de l’ogre and La petite Chartreuse. Both titles are studied in French schools and lycees, and both have been translated into English, the former by Euan Cameron and the latter by Ina Rilke.
