by Catherine Cusset · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070121984
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«Un brillant avenir» is the novel by Catherine Cusset, published by Gallimard in paperback (369 pages, in French).
Elena, a young Romanian woman, flees in 1958 with Jacob, a Jewish man her parents reject, and starts a new life in the United States as Helen. Years later, the relationship between her son and Marie, a young French woman, reopens old wounds; the encounter between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law ends up transforming them.
Literary fiction novel published in 2008; it won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens that year.
For readers of contemporary fiction and French literature interested in exile, family, and identity.
Catherine Cusset is a best-selling French novelist and the author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel, The Story of Jane, and 12 other novels published by Éditions Gallimard between 1990 and 2018. Some of her novels are described as autofiction, a French literary movement that is a hybrid of fiction and autobiography. Others are more romantic, but all share some recurring themes: the family, desire, and cultural conflicts between France and America. She stands out from her contemporaries with a direct, incisive, visual form of writing, marked by the influence of Anglo-Saxon novelists.
