
Efina
Noelle Revaz(Author)
Seagull Books London Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 7. March 2014
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-85742-170-8 (ISBN)
Description
T., an acclaimed but aging actor, and Efina, a passionate theatergoer, are engaged in an obsessive love affair that careens from attraction to repulsion. They compulsively write letters - often to express their intense dislike of one another - which are sent or unsent, answered or unanswered. They meet, they break up, they marry, and they get divorced. They neither can live with nor without one another, and this impossible state of affairs lasts all their lives. In between, there are other men and many other women, but throughout, the magic of the theater and the art of make-believe endure. Efina is a tumultuous novel about art, love, disdain, and above all - obsession - told in a quirky, highly original style. It presents an unapologetically dysfunctional yet honest relationship, detailing outrageous thoughts and absurd behaviors in clear and precise prose. What could have been a sad tale of failed love is delightfully transformed by Noelle Revaz into a masterpiece of dark humor.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Greenford
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
415 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85742-170-8 (9780857421708)
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Noelle Revaz's first novel, With the Animals, was highly acclaimed. She currently lives in Lausanne. David and Nicole Ball have translated nine books from French, including Abdourahman A. Waberi's Passage of Tears, also published by Seagull Books.