A translator in Lisbon assembles her life from other people's sentences.
A translator in Lisbon assembles her life from other people's sentences. In the tradition of quiet, careful novels, Elodie Vasseur builds a world that rewards attention — the kind of book you read slowly, then again, and then recommend to exactly one person.
The prose alone is worth the price. I dog-eared half of it.
Slow start, but by chapter three I couldn't put it down.
One of the best things I've read this year. Bibloggie's curation is uncanny.