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Faces on the Tip of My Tongue (Paperback)

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Paperback 128 Pages
Published: 15/10/2019

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Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020

Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with compassion.

The late wedding guest isn't your cousin but a drunken chancer. The driver who gives you a lift isn't going anywhere but off the road. Snow settles on your car in the middle of summer and the glitter found between the pages of a borrowed novel takes you into another world.

Pagano's stories weave together the mad, the mysterious and the dispossessed in rural France with honesty and humour. This is a superb cumulative collection from a unique French voice.

Publisher: Peirene Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781908670540
Number of pages: 128


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`Pagano succeeds because of the range of her insight and the skill with which she shifts register: from wistfulness to blunt force, or from fantasy to naturalism.' CHRIS POWER, THE GUARDIAN `Endlessly beautiful and poignant.' LE MONDE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012 `Devastatingly beautiful.' LE SOIR, BELGIUM

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“Everything is everything (except when it isn’t)”

“The faster you go, the less you can see on either side. The bigger your blind spots.”

Set in mountainous rural France. Pagano offers a collection of close ups on characters (all somewhat marginal) and tangles and... More

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“International Booker Longlist 2020”

So I challenged myself to read a few of the international booker longlist 2020....
This was the 4th book I choose to read from the list, very much enjoyed it. Quite a unique style of writing.
Certainly, worth the read... More

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“A little too much sadness.”

Imbued with a matter-of-fact melancholy the like of which pervades so many short story collections these days, this is a grouping of mostly very brief reminiscences of childhood, times passed and things lost.... More

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