And My See-Through Heart
Translated by Adriana Hunter, by Véronique Ovaldé
France Culture-Télérama (Winner) 2009, Prix Femina (Short-listed) 2009, Prix Lilas (Short-listed) 2009
There are echoes of Kurt Vonnegut and Milan Kundera in Ovaldé's ability to take the most stressful events – death, depression and anxiety – and bring an obliquely discursive perspective to bear. The result is luminously engaging and delicately, comically uplifting.’
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It is late at night when Lancelot receives the phone call telling him that his wife has been involved in a crash. This is a shock – not least because he’d just said goodbye to Irina at the airport and she should have been in another country when she plunged to her death in the local river, at the wheel of someone else’s car. Lancelot is still numb from the news when other facts begin to surface, each one more bewildering than the last. It seems that the woman he loved had a past – and a plan for a future – that he never even suspected…
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