Translated from the French, a multilayered novel of high
passion and low light, tracing two young lovers who must both come
to terms with their inherited bonds and the paths that shape the
future.
Jakuta Alikavazovic is a French writer of Bosnian and Montenegrin
origins. Her debut novel, Corps Volatils, won the Prix Goncourt in
2008 for Best First Novel. She has translated works by Ben Lerner,
David Foster Wallace and Anna Burns into French. She lives in Paris
and writes a regular column for the daily newspaper Liberation.
Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator from French, including works by
Herve Guibert, the Dardenne brothers and Jean Genet. He has been a
finalist for the TA First Translation Prize and the French-American
Foundation Translation Prize, and has won a PEN/Heim translation
grant and the French Voices awards Grand Prize.
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