Your Father's Room

Your Father's Room

by JulianEvans (Translator), Michel Déon (Author)

Synopsis

'You can't possibly remember. You weren't even a year old...' Edouard looks back on his 1920s childhood spent in Paris and Monte Carlo. Within a bourgeois yet unconventional upbringing, 'Teddy', an observant and sensitive boy, must deal with not just the universal trials of growing up, but also the sudden tragedy that strikes at the heart of his family.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Edition: Translation
Publisher: Gallic Books
Published: 12 Jun 2017

ISBN 10: 1910477346
ISBN 13: 9781910477342
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Media Reviews
'Wryly funny prose ... a delight' Independent on Sunday; 'It is shamefully parochial of us that this eminent writer has been so ignored' Sunday Times; 'A big-hearted coming-of-age shaggy-dog story ... leaves you feeling better about life' The Spectator; 'Deserves a place alongside Flaubert's Sentimental Education and Le Grand Meaulnes' New Statesman
Author Bio
Michel Deon is a member of the Academie francaise. Born in Paris in 1919, he is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and non-fiction. He lives in Ireland.