Your Father's Room - Softcover

Michel Déon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910477346 ISBN 13: 9781910477342

Publisher: Gallic Books, 2017

Synopsis

'Artfully told... readers, propelled by Julian Evans silky-smooth translation, will find the ride in Déon s balloon exhilarating.' - Times Literary Supplement

A vivid recreation of the interwar period, Michel Déon's fictionalised memoir is a touching and very true depiction of boyhood and how our early experiences affect us.
Édouard (Michel Déon's real name) looks back on his 1920s childhood spent in Paris and Monte Carlo. Within a bourgeois yet unconventional upbringing, 'Teddy', an observant and sensitive boy, must deal with not just the universal trials of growing up, but also the sudden tragedy that strikes at the heart of his family.

About this title

Review:

'Wonderful, immersive. He deserves to have a wider English audience'---Historical Novel Society Magazine

'Artfully told... readers, propelled by Julian Evans silky-smooth translation, will find the ride in Déon's balloon exhilarating'--- TLS

'Wryly funny prose ... a delight' --Independent on Sunday

'Your Father's Room  is a bittersweet masterpiece of confusion and heartache, nuance and atmosphere (...)Nostalgic and disturbingly familiar, Michel Déon's remembrance of things past is well worth reading.' ---BookBlast

'It is shamefully parochial of us that this eminent writer has been so ignored' --Sunday Times

'A big-hearted coming-of-age shaggy-dog story ... leaves you feeling better about life' --The Spectator

About the Author:

Born in Paris in 1919, Michel Déon was the author of more than 50 works of fiction and non-fiction, and a member of the Académie française.
His 1970 novel Les Poneys Sauvages was awarded the prestigious Prix Interallié and in 1973 Le Taxi Mauve (later made into a film starring Fred Astaire and Charlotte Rampling) won the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française.
Le Jeune Homme Vert (The Foundling Boy) was published in 1975, with the sequel published two years later. Déon lived in Ireland with his wife, Chantal, and their horses. He died in 2016.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallic Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1910477346
• ISBN 13: 9781910477342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112