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"WINNER OF THE 2021 BABELIO PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION ""Horvilleur shows how it is possible to find language even for that which seems indescribable. Her deep reflections on mortality remind us that 'in death a place can be left for the living.'""--Kirkus Reviews ""Horvilleur has written an elegantly slim and majestically poetic book...in writing about death, she writes about the will to life as well.""--Religious News Service ""Without a doubt, one of the most beautiful and impressive books not only of the last year but of recent years.""--ABC (Spain) ""A radiant book that, without sentimentality, invites us to celebrate life.""--Le Monde ""Luminous.""--Infobae (Spain) ""One of today's most original voices of contemporary European Judaism.""--Avvenire (Italy) ""A hymn to the healing power of storytelling and the written word.""--Le Figaro ""Moving...Delphine Horvilleur finds the right words to describe our time and its ghosts.""--ELLE Magazine (France) ""The French intellectual...presents a non-male perspective we need in mainstream Jewish literature.""--Heyalma"

"""A radiant book that, without sentimentality, invites us to celebrate life.""--Le Monde ""A hymn to the healing power of storytelling and the written word.""--Le Figaro ""Delightful and moving... Delphine Horvilleur finds the right words to describe our time and its ghosts.""--ELLE Magazine (France)"

A radiant book that, without sentimentality, invites us to celebrate life. --Le Monde A hymn to the healing power of storytelling and the written word. --Le Figaro Delightful and moving... Delphine Horvilleur finds the right words to describe our time and its ghosts. --ELLE Magazine (France)

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Delphine Horvilleur is one of the few female Rabbis in France. She was ordained in America, as there was no possibility to study in France as a woman, and is the leader of the Liberal Jewish Movement of France. Her writings have appeared in the Washington Post and Haaretz. She lives in Paris. Lisa Appignanesi is the author of several critically acclaimed and prizewinning books on the history of madness and mind-doctoring, most recently Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love. She has written for the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, and the Observer. She is a former President of English PEN, chair of the Freud Museum, London, and the Royal Society of Literature.

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