by Eleanor Catton · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070449514
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«La répétition» is Eleanor Catton's coming-of-age novel, published by Gallimard in paperback (432 pages, in French).
At a girls' school, music teacher Saladin's relationship with student Victoria leads to his dismissal and a scandal. Her classmates and Victoria's sister confide in their saxophone teacher and explore desires and fantasies. A drama school adapts the case as an end-of-year play, blurring the line between reality and fiction.
The original work, The Rehearsal (2008), was translated into French by Erika Abrams and won the Betty Trask Award; this French edition was published in 2013.
For readers of literary fiction who appreciate coming-of-age novels and adolescent awakening.
Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her award-winning debut novel, The Rehearsal, written as her Master's thesis, was published in 2008, and has been adapted into a 2016 film of the same name. Her second novel, The Luminaries, won the 2013 Booker Prize, making Catton the youngest author ever to win the prize and only the second New Zealander. It was subsequently adapted into a television miniseries, with Catton as screenwriter. In 2023, she was named on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
