THERES A MONSTER BEHIND THE DOOR
Language: English
Published by Bullaun Press, 2024
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- THERES A MONSTER BEHIND THE DOOR
- Author
- B LEM, GA LLE
- Publisher
- Bullaun Press
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- NEW
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1739842367
- ISBN 13
- 9781739842369
This is La Reunion in the 1980s: high unemployment and low expectations, the legacy of postcolonialism. One little girl makes a bid for escape from her sadistic parents' reign of terror and turns to school for salvation.
Rich in the history of the island's customs and superstitions, and driven by a wild, offbeat humour, this picaresque tale manages to satirize the very notion of freedom available in this French territory, and perhaps even the act of writing itself and where it might lead you.
'A novel that is as beautiful as it is brutal. Life in La Reunion is described in brilliantly vivid, unflinching, and at times, humorous prose. This is a story that will transport you across the world with its incredible narrator, characters and places, but despite the distance, our narrator does what great voices do: whispers, we are all the same.' —Kevin Curran, author of Youth
'Vivacious and mordantly funny, the tragicomic voice of There's a Monster Behind the Door is forensically and brilliantly merciless.' —Wendy Erskine
'Harsh, hilarious, spine chilling and heart warming - an unmissable French debut.' —Michelle Gallen
'A tour-de-force as volcanic as the little island of La Reunion, a tiny sliver of France marooned in the Indian Ocean, "a heap of rubble on the edge of the world". The narrator of Gaelle Belem's novel, a little girl no-one wanted, the unloved daughter of the Dessaintes, is determined to be someone, to tell the story of her family, and through them the story of an island founded on slavery, poverty, cruelty and superstition with a caustic wit and a keen eye. It is a tragi-comedy worthy of Zola, candid and unflinching, yet shot through with humour and poignancy and even a glimmer of hope. Belem's novel is a joyous discovery and in Laëtitia Saint-Loubert and Karen Fleetwood she has found translators alert to the nuances of French and Creole and to the poetry threaded through this startling debut.' —Frank Wynne, translator, 2022 International Booker Prize - chair of the judges
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About the Author
Translator since 2007, Karen Fleetwood’s previous literary work includes English translations of Jules Verne’s Le Rayon vert (2009) & Les Forceurs de blocus (2011), both from Luath Press.
Freelance literary translator since 2012, Laëtitia Saint-Loubert currently teaches Translation Studies at Nantes University. Her first monograph, The Caribbean in Translation (Peter Lang), was published in 2020.
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