Le Sillon

Name: Le Sillon
ISBN: 9782370551672

by Valérie Manteau

Prix Renaudot · 2018 · Winner

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Christian BourgoisAugust 16, 2018Literary FictionISBN 9782370551672

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prix Renaudot	2018	Winner

About This Book

A lyrical meditation on the murder of a journalist in Istanbul, told through the consciousness of a woman retracing the victim's final days, exploring the difficulty of mourning in the face of political violence.

About the Author

Valérie ManteauFR

Valérie Manteau is a French novelist born in 1991, one of the youngest writers ever to win a major French literary prize. She studied literature and worked in publishing before publishing her debut novel Calme et tranquille in 2016. Her writing is marked by a poetic, hypnotic prose style and an engagement with violence, memory, and loss. Read more →