When You Love You Must Depart

When You Love You Must Depart

by David Watson (Translator), Alina Reyes (Author), Alina Reyes (Author), David Watson (Translator)

Synopsis

Breaking free from family ties, a woman departs with her lover, Oscar, to the forzen city of Montreal - their snow-bound exile drawing them into greater intimacy. Returning to france, she finds solitude high up in the Pyrenees. As she reflects on recent events, she recalls the birth of their relationship from the first casual encoutner to her rpofound experience of love. And as she writes of theri shared physical and emotional itinery, her journal recoutns two curious intrepid strangers in a foreign landscape, travelling down a road towards an unknown destination, discovering themselves and each other...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 91
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Minerva
Published: 28 May 1996

ISBN 10: 0749396164
ISBN 13: 9780749396169

Author Bio
Alina Reyes was born in 1956 in Soulac in the South-West of France. She left school early and married, but then returned to her studies, completing a master's thesis on the fantasy stories of the nineteenth-century writer, Macel Schwob. While studying she supported herself and her two sons by working as a freelance journalist. Her controversial first novel, The Butcher, was originally wrirtten for a competition of erotic writing; it was published, became an overnight bestseller in France, and has since been translated into fifteen languages. Her second novel, Lucie's Long Voyage, was published in English in 1991 and her third novel, The Fatal Bodice, in 1993. Alina Reyes currently lives in Paris.