Agnès Desarthe
Agnès Desarthe was born in Paris in 1966 and has written many books for children and adolescents, as well as adult fiction. She won the Prix Inter in 1996 for Un Secret sans importance and has had two of her previous novels translated into English: Five Photos of My Wife (Flamingo, 2001), which was short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Jewish Quarterly Fiction Prize, and Good Intentions (Flamingo, 2002). She is a very prolific author in French, working on children's books, novels and essays for adults, and translations from American literature. She lives in central Paris with her husband and their three children.
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Praise for Good Intentions:
‘Unfailingly funny…A microcosm of modern city life. Good Intentions is abruptly, sharply realistic. Desarthe’s skill is to balance the sheer, pedestrian horror of the situation with her teasing, gleeful humour.’
Observer
‘Desarthe’s storytelling is sublime, spiked with wit, irony and an intense melancholy.’
Literary Review
Praise for Five Photos of My Wife:
‘A magical, stylish and subtle story’
Independent
‘Well told, elegantly conceived and constructed.’
The Times
‘A subtle and sly dissection of love, loss and truth. Darkly funny, too.'
Elle
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Chez Moi (First Edition)
Agnès Desarthe, Adriana Hunter
How hard can it be to run a restaurant when you’ve fed fussy children and been a circus caterer? The delightfully dreamy heroine of Agnès Desarthe’s playful and piquant new novel is about to find out.
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Chez Moi (First B Format Paperback Edition)
Agnès Desarthe, Adriana Hunter
How hard can it be to run a restaurant when you’ve fed fussy children and been a circus caterer? The delightfully dreamy heroine of Agnès Desarthe’s playful and piquant new novel is about to find out.
Published: 01/04/09, RRP: £7.99, Introductory Offer: 20% Off All Titles, Web Price: £6.39, You Save: £1.60 (20%), ADD TO BASKET
Recent Related Events
Agnés Desarthe at The Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday 29th August 2009 at 4.30pm
Agnés Desarthe will be speaking about Chez Moi with Farahad Zama at The Edinburgh International Book Festival, in Charlotte Square Gardens, at 5.30pm.
Agnes Desarthe at Hay Festival
Agnes Desarthe will be speaking about Chez Moi with Philippe Sands at the Guardian Hay Festival, Dream Stage, Hay-on-Wye, Wales.
