A Sunday in Ville-d'Avray : a novel / Dominique Barbéris ; translated from the French by John Cullen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbéris, Dominique, author.

Contributor:

Cullen, John, 1942- translator.

Standardized Title:

Dimanche à Ville-d'Avray. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Sisters--Fiction.

Sisters.

Memory--Fiction.

Memory.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

132 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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 dreams 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. They confide in each other. One tells of an unlikely meeting in this seemingly peaceful provincial town. The other recounts, to her sister's amazement, 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Originally published in 2019 as Un dimanche à Ville-d'Avray by Arléa, Paris.

Other Format:

Online version: Barbéris, Dominique. Sunday in Ville-d'Avray

ISBN:

9781635420456

1635420458

OCLC:

1182572644