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Title: The Red Sofa
Condition: New
EAN: 9780857428769
ISBN: 9780857428769
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 12/08/2021
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 127mm
Item Width: 10mm
Translator: David Ball, Nicole Ball
Contributor: David Ball (Translated by), Nicole Ball (Translated by)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0857428764
Description: Now in paperback, The Red Sofa is a quiet French novella exploring love, memory, and the perspective that travel gives us on both.

In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects on her past with Gyl and their patriotic struggles, as well as on the neighbor she has just left behind, Clémence Barrot.

Rocked by the train’s movements Anne is moved by her memory of Clémence, who is old and whose memory is failing, but who has not lost her taste for life and adventure. Ensconced on her red sofa at home, Clémence loves to tell Anne her life story, mourning lost loved ones and celebrating the lives of brave, rebellious women who went before her. Eventually, Anne’s train trip returns her home having not found Gyl, but having found something much more meaningful—herself.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Author: Michèle Lesbre
Book Series: French List
Genre: Fiction
Release Year: 2021

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