Our Life In The Forest

Awards:   Short-listed for Scott Moncrieff Prize 2019 (UK)
Author:   Marie Darrieussecq
Publisher:   Text Publishing
ISBN:  

9781925603781


Pages:   151
Publication Date:   30 July 2018
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Our Price $27.99 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Our Life In The Forest


Add your own review!

Awards

  • Short-listed for Scott Moncrieff Prize 2019 (UK)

Overview

In the near future, a woman is writing in the depths of a forest. She’s cold. Her body is falling apart, as is the world around her. She’s lost the use of one eye; she’s down to one kidney, one lung. Before, in the city, she was a psychotherapist, treating patients who had suffered trauma, in particular a man, “the clicker”. Every two weeks, she travelled out to the Rest Centre, to visit her “half”, Marie, her spitting image, who lay in an induced coma, her body parts available whenever the woman needed them. As a form of resistance against the terror in the city, the woman flees, along with other fugitives and their halves. But life in the forest is disturbing too—the reanimated halves are behaving like uninhibited adolescents. And when she sees a shocking image of herself on video, are her worst fears confirmed? Our Life in the Forest, written in her inimitable concise, vivid prose recalls Darrieusecq’s brilliant debut, Pig Tales. A dystopian tale in the vein of Never Let Me Go, this is a clever novel of chilling suspense that challenges our ideas about the future, about organ-trafficking, about identity, clones, and the place of the individual in a surveillance state.

Full Product Details

Author:   Marie Darrieussecq
Publisher:   Text Publishing
Imprint:   The Text Publishing Company
ISBN:  

9781925603781


ISBN 10:   1925603784
Pages:   151
Publication Date:   30 July 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Table of Contents

Reviews

`Once again, Darrieusecq gives us a passionate investigation into the deficiencies, transformations and lapses in our humanity...A little like Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, she shows how literature is our best means to disrupt functionality. * Focus Vif * `Who would have thought Marie Darrieussecq would write a thriller? This brief, feminist and political novel is perhaps her most inventive...With wit and elegance, the author takes us into a narrative full of tension, and with the same humour as in Pig Tales. Once again, she creates an absurd world, and denounces the failings of our society.' * Les Inrockuptibles * `In this brilliantly executed dystopia, Marie Darrieussecq writes with rare skill about the concerns of our time-the senseless destruction of the planet and transhumanist madness. Outstanding.' * Le Matin Dimanche * `A disturbing dystopian tale in which tragedy and irony work together...Ingeniously and brilliantly, Marie Darrieussecq's sparkling tale adds to the classics of futuristic fiction. Even more profound than the social and political resonance of this novel is the theme of loneliness.' * Telerama * `In this exceptional novel, the author of Pig Tales describes a world in the future where surveillance is omnipresent and clones rule...An unusual, strange book.' * L'Observateur * `The title could be Our Life in the Future , but reducing this book to a dystopian tale is doing it a disservice...A journal from beyond the grave, as time runs out...And a profound novel about loneliness.' * Liberation * `The reader will be captivated by Darrieussecq's hypnotic style.' * Le Monde *


`Our Life in the Forest is a psychologically astute novel, with a few well-executed twists that will no doubt please fans of the genre.' * Saturday Paper * `Darrieussecq's writing brings the story to life vividly in your mind.' * Good Reading * `Once again, Darrieusecq gives us a passionate investigation into the deficiencies, transformations and lapses in our humanity...A little like Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451, she shows how literature is our best means to disrupt functionality. * Focus Vif * `Who would have thought Marie Darrieussecq would write a thriller? This brief, feminist and political novel is perhaps her most inventive...With wit and elegance, the author takes us into a narrative full of tension, and with the same humour as in Pig Tales. Once again, she creates an absurd world, and denounces the failings of our society.' * Les Inrockuptibles * `In this brilliantly executed dystopia, Marie Darrieussecq writes with rare skill about the concerns of our time-the senseless destruction of the planet and transhumanist madness. Outstanding.' * Le Matin Dimanche * `A disturbing dystopian tale in which tragedy and irony work together...Ingeniously and brilliantly, Marie Darrieussecq's sparkling tale adds to the classics of futuristic fiction. Even more profound than the social and political resonance of this novel is the theme of loneliness.' * Telerama * `In this exceptional novel, the author of Pig Tales describes a world in the future where surveillance is omnipresent and clones rule...An unusual, strange book.' * L'Observateur * `The title could be Our Life in the Future , but reducing this book to a dystopian tale is doing it a disservice...A journal from beyond the grave, as time runs out...And a profound novel about loneliness.' * Liberation * `The reader will be captivated by Darrieussecq's hypnotic style.' * Le Monde *


Author Information

Marie Darrieussecq is a French writer born in Bayonne in 1969. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was published in 1996 and subsequently translated into thirty-five languages. She has written some fifteen books for adults, including novels, short fiction, a play, and nonfiction works. In 2013 she was awarded both the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix for her novel Men. Being Here, her biography of Paula Modersohn-Becker, was released in 2016. She is a regular contributor to contemporary art magazines in France and Britain and also writes for Libération and Charlie Hebdo. She lives in Paris.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

ls

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List