by Catherine Cusset · Gallimard (Folio) · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070402588
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«Un brillant avenir» is the novel by Catherine Cusset published by Gallimard in its Folio collection in paperback format, 366 pages, in French.
In 1958, Elena falls in love with Jacob, a Jew, and marries him against her parents' wishes. She then emigrates from communist Romania to the United States, calls herself Helen, and leaves her past behind. Twenty years later, her son marries Marie, a French woman whom Helen disapproves of; between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, a bond akin to love emerges.
Novel awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2008. The work was originally published in 2008 and the present edition is from 2010.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction interested in emigration, identity, and family conflicts.
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.
