Awards

• Winner of Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman 2024 (France)

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From Old Lyon to the forests of Gabon, from the Atlantic coast to Douala, Ève Guerra weaves a dazzling first novel about exile and all that goes unspoken, in language as painful as a Baudelaire verse. -- Laëtitia Favro Her agile language blends romantic descriptions, poetic and dramatic prose. She abolishes the boundaries between sounds and words, inner dialogue and conversations. -- Gladys Marivat Ève Guerra unleashes a cry of love and hate together that echoes her own story, and attempts to exorcise the pain of absence. -- Véronique Cassarin-Grand Through crystal-clear writing that plays with chiaroscuro and shattered identities, Ève Guerra anchors her heroine to reality. Dreaming of being a poet and sometimes preferring ""fiction to life itself,"" she entrusts the reader with a prodigious first novel of love and grief. -- Sarah Gasetl Her novel is also a beautiful portrait of a contemporary young woma, forced to cope with a tragic, unbearable inheritance. -- Sylvie Tanette

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