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'When Leon and Solange entered the church everyone was struck by the difference in height between them. Even though he was wearing heel inserts and held himself ramrod-straight, he still only came just above her shoulder. But no one was bothered by it…' However, when their first child is born, Leon gradually shrinks by fifteen inches. This is repeated after their second child and his body - apart from one member - continues to shrink until he is little more than a Tom Thumb driving round the family apartment in a toy car… Pascal Bruckner's novel is a delightful fantasy that can also be read as an impish contribution to the debate on feminism.

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The bizare details of Leon's miniaturized life are comically rendered, but a darker sensibility is at play. Bruckner in this jeu d'esprit develops a less than whimsical meditation on masculinity, marriage and parenting. -- Emma Hagerstadt in The Independent 'another excellent book by Pascal Bruckner, My Little Husband' Irisquest.net 'The bizzare details of Leon's miniaturised life are comically rendered, but a darker sensibility is at play. Bruckner in this jeu d'esprit develops a less than whimsical meditation on masculinity, marriage and parenting. ' Emma Hagerstadt in The Independent

The bizare details of Leon's miniaturized life are comically rendered, but a darker sensibility is at play. Bruckner in this jeu d'esprit develops a less than whimsical meditation on masculinity, marriage and parenting. -- Emma Hagerstadt in The Independent

'another excellent book by Pascal Bruckner, My Little Husband' Irisquest.net

The bizare details of Leon's miniaturized life are comically rendered, but a darker sensibility is at play. Bruckner in this jeu d'esprit develops a less than whimsical meditation on masculinity, marriage and parenting. -- Emma Hagerstadt in The Independent

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Pascal Bruckner is best known as a controversial philosopher. Two of his essays - The Tyranny of Guilt and Perpetual Euphoria: On the duty to be Happy were published to great acclaim in English translation in 2011 and 2012. In 2013 an English translation of his essay Has Marriage for Love Failed? was published. He has won two major French prizes for his fiction: The Prix Medecis and The Prix Renaudot. His novel Lunes de fiel was made into the film Bitter Moon by Roman Polanski. Mike Mitchell has published over seventy translations from German and French, including Gustav Meyrink's five novels and The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy. His translation of Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China won the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize after he had been shortlisted twice before. His translations have been shortlisted four times for The Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize: Simplicissimus by Johann Grimmelshausen in 1999, The Other Side by Alfred Kubin in 2000, The Bells of Bruges by Georges Rodenbach in 2008 and the Lairds of Cromarty by Jean Pierre Ohl in 2013.

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