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Home > Translation > The World Bookshelf > Books > Trysting

Trysting

Grains of sand, bridges, shampoo, a bike, board games, yoga, sellotape, birds, balloons, tattoos, wandering hands, tweezers, maths, fish, letterboxes, puppets, a vacuum cleaner, a ball of string – and love.

In this fiction of yous and mes, of hims and hers, Pagano choreographs the objects, gestures, places, and persons through which love is made real.

Author

Emmanuelle Pagano

Emmanuelle Pagano

Books

Trysting

Emmanuelle Pagano was born in 1969 in the Aveyron region of southern France, she now lives and works on the Ardèche plateau. She studied fine art and the aesthetics of cinema, and regularly collaborates with artists working in other disciplines such as dance, cinema, photography, illustration, fine art and music. Emmanuelle has written more than a dozen works of fiction, and her books have been translated into more than twelve languages. She has won the EU Prize for Literature.

Translator

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis

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Trysting

Sophie Lewis is a London-born writer, editor and translator from French and Portuguese. Recent translations include The Earth Turned Upside Down by Jules Verne (Hesperus) and The Man Who Walked Through Walls by Marcel Aymé (Pushkin). She is a Senior Editor at the publishing house And Other Stories, and moved to Rio de Janeiro in January 2011.

Jennifer Higgins

Jennifer Higgins

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Trysting

Jennifer Higgins is a literary, academic and general translator, working from French and Italian into English. She is also an experienced editor, copy-editor and teacher in all three languages. Based in Oxford, Jennifer runs translation workshops in schools and is a tutor in Advanced Translation at Oxford University.

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And Other Stories, 2016
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Grains of sand, bridges, shampoo, a bike, board games, yoga, sellotape, birds, balloons, tattoos, wandering hands, tweezers, maths, fish, letterboxes, puppets, a vacuum cleaner, a ball of string – and love.

In this fiction of yous and mes, of hims and hers, Pagano choreographs the objects, gestures, places, and persons through which love is made real.

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