Cliffs

Cliffs

by OlivierAdam (Author), SUEROSE(translator) (Author)

Synopsis

Etretat, Normandy. On the balcony of a hotel room, a man is keeping watch. His gaze is fixed on the cliffs from which his mother jumped to her death twenty years earlier. During the course of a single night, the narrator reflects on his life, searching for traces of his mother, his childhood, his lost youth, his brutal father, his runaway brother and his years in Paris. He reflects on his memories, sensations and loss-and, above all, the love that has saved his own soul from despair.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 206
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 07 Nov 2007

ISBN 10: 1901285758
ISBN 13: 9781901285758

Media Reviews
This very beautiful novel by Olivier Adam resembles a pebble from the coast of Normandy, polished and pure, and yet troubled by a raging sea -- Jerome Garcin Le Nouvel Observateur Haunting and intense, Cliffs is full of the terrifying loneliness of childhood. Olivier Adam has written a work of stark beauty, troubling in its depiction of loss and longing -- Tash Aw, writer
Author Bio
Olivier Adam was born in 1974. He lives near Saint-Malo in Brittany, having grown up in the Parisian suburbs. His novel Passer l'Hiver won the Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle in 2004, and his novels Poids Leger and Je Vais Bien Ne t'en Fais Pas have been adapted for the cinema. The author is also a successful screenwriter and has published several books for children. Most recently, he published Les Lisieres in 2012.