Clara Reads Proust
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Clara Reads Proust
Clara Reads Proust
An elegant and quietly lyrical charting of a life changed by books Irish Times
Full of charm, sensitivity and intelligence. Brilliant. Antoine Laurain, author of The Red Notebook
Clara is a hairdresser at Cindy Coiffure, a sleepy French salon with an identity crisis. Her relationship is fizzling out. Her tanoholic boss, Madame Habib, worships Jacques Chirac and talks longingly of her days in Paris. And now Madame Lévy-Leroyer wants to go blonde. Clara can't help but wonder if there's more to life than this...
Everything changes when a customer leaves behind the first volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. As Clara reads, she discovers a new world. And slowly but surely, she will work out who she wants to be.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781805334842
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 January 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Contributors:
- Translated by Polly Mackintosh
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 176
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About the Author
Stéphane Carlier was born in 1971 in Argenteuil, France. Clara Reads Proust is his eighth novel and the first to be translated into English.
Polly Mackintosh is an editor and a translator from French. She has translated the work of Alain Ducasse, Antoine Laurain, Serge Joncour and early French feminist Marie-Louise Gagneur. She currently lives in London.
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