Faces on the Tip of My Tongue

Translated by Sophie Lewis, Jennifer Higgins

Original language:: French

Longlisted: The International Booker Prize 2020
Published by Peirene Press: 26 September 2019

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Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with warm compassion, in Emmanuelle Pagano’s wonderful collection of stories

The late wedding guest isn’t your cousin but a drunken chancer. The driver who gives you a lift isn’t going anywhere but off the road. Snow settles on your car in summer and the sequins found between the pages of a borrowed novel will make your fortune. Pagano’s stories weave together the mad, the mysterious and the dispossessed of a rural French community with honesty and humour. A superb, cumulative collection from a unique French voice.