A New York Times Notable Book 2016
An October Indie Next List Great Reads” Pick
After the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, copes with the loss by writing his personal history. While researching the letters and journals he left behind, however, she comes to the devastating conclusion that his life before their marriage was far richer than the one they shared. To understand and recreate the period of his greatest happinesshitch-hiking through France as a young man, madly in love with his companion, a French girl named MoniqueKatrin embarks on a heartbreaking journey to discover the man she never fully knew.
David Constantine is an award-winning short story writer, poet, and, translator. The title story of his North American debut collection of short fiction, In Another Country: Selected Stories (Biblioasis, 2015) was adapted into the Academy Awardnominated feature film 45 Years. He is the author of one previous novel, Davies, as well as four collections of short stories in the United Kingdom, and five collections of poetry. He lives in Oxford, England, where until 2012 he edited Modern Poetry in Translation with his wife Helen.
- ISBN10 1771961015
- ISBN13 9781771961011
- Publish Date 27 October 2016 (first published 24 September 2015)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Biblioasis
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English