Nelly's Version Variant:Paperback

Nelly's Version Variant:PaperbackBy Eva Figes Introduction by Susan Faludi Paperpack: 9781628976618 eBook: 9781628976625 Publication Date: August 16th, 2026 Description Eva Figes' inventive reshaping of the psychological thriller, Nelly's Versionpart dark comedy, part mystery noveloffers an unsettling journey into the mind of a witty woman stuck in a pastless present. A middle aged woman suffering from amnesia checks into a small town hotel under the pseudonym Nelly Dean with a

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” The Hard Life is a sober farce from a master of Irish comic fiction

and lacerating novels of Ann Quin were very much products of their time—but  Quin herself had more than a little influence upon shaping the era in which she lived

But Frizzi’s translation is true to the author’s fiercely pro-woman ethos and colloquial register

" —James Baldwin

” and saw them as illustrating a redemptive “third way”: that of waylessness

Abigail Lang teaches American Literature and Translation at Université Paris-Diderot and is a member of the Double Change collective

and memory into an elaborate tapestry spanning centuries and covering thousands of miles―all without the narrator ever leaving his house

and humane

and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter

including that of his father