Showcase - Geography of an Adultery A Novel by AGNÈS RIVA Translated by JOHN CULLEN

Today I'm showcasing, Geography of an Adultery A Novel by AGNÈS RIVA, yet another fabulous new offering from the best Indie Publisher out there, Other Press. Stay tuned because my review will be posted soon!
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ISBN-13: 978-1-59051-110-7
Publisher: Other Press
Release Date: 2-22-22
Length: 160pp
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Overview:

Dissecting a midlife affair, this perceptive, slyly comical debut explores how the spaces that limit our movements can be more exciting than the person we think we want.

Ema and Paul are lovers. Like so many others before them, they met through work. Both are married with children, and they arrange hurried meetings away from prying eyes. Paul’s car, a corner of Ema’s house, a hotel room…But their relationship soon suffers from this too-restricted sphere, and Ema decides to put them both in danger, at the risk of losing everything.

Cleverly attaching itself to the locations where passion plays out—whether domestic or professional, safe or transgressive—Geography of an Adultery casts a radical eye on anticipation and desire. With her deceptively cool, clinically precise style, Agnès Riva unravels the inner workings of a private life.

Showcase A SUNDAY IN VILLE-d’AVRAY by DOMINIQUE BARBÉRIS Translated by JOHN CULLEN

Today I'm showcasing another wonderful new release from Other Press, this novel comes from French novelist Dominique Barbéris, A SUNDAY IN VILLE-d’AVRAY .
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ISBN-13: 978-1-63542-046-3
Publisher: Other Press
Release Date: 4-27-2021
Length: 144pp
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Overview:

In this subtly haunting novel, a married woman confesses her encounter with a mysterious man, which threatens the stilted calm of life in a Paris suburb.

Echoing the acclaimed and unsettling film Sundays and Cybèle from 1962, A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray is suffused with the same feeling of disquiet: Two sisters meet as the light is fading in a detached house in Ville-d’Avray, each filled with the memory of their childhood hopes and fears, their insatiable desire for the romantic, for wild landscapes worthy of Jane Eyre, and for a mad love, all concealed beneath the appearance of a sensible life. Claire Marie, considered by most to be a dreamy, passive sort of person, suddenly breaks from the everyday by confiding in her sister about an unlikely meeting in this seemingly peaceful provincial town. To her listener’s amazement, she tells of her wanderings around the Fausses-Reposes forest, the Corot Ponds, and the suburban train stations, and the lurking dangers she encountered there.

In this arresting novel reminiscent of Simenon, Dominique Barbéris explores the great depths of the human soul, troubled like the waters of the ponds.