Книга: Anna Gavalda «Hunting and Gathering»

Hunting and Gathering

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Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Philibert Marquet de La Durbelli&# 232;re is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum. One evening he overcomes his own excruciating reticence to rescue Camille, unconscious, from her freezing garret, and install her in the large, ornate apartment he is caretaking downstairs. He already has an unlikely flatmate, the foul-mouthed, talented working-class young chef, Franck, who is made more obnoxious by guilt about the beloved grandmother he's had to put in a home. Together, this curious, damaged little quartet may be able to face the world. Gorgeously original, full of wry humour and razor-sharp observation, redolent of Paris, its foibles, its food and its neglected corners, "Hunting and Gathering" is a universal story about despair, love and the virtues of ensemble-playing in a naughty world. It's a big novel that you will not want to put down.

Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (2008)

ISBN: 978-0-09-949407-2

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Anna Gavalda

Anna Gavalda (born December 9, 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French teacher and award-winning novelist.

Referred to by "Voici" magazine as "a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker", Anna Gavalda was born in an upper-class suburb of Paris. While working as French teacher in high school, a collection of her short stories was first published in 1999 under the title "Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part" that met with both critical acclaim and commercial success, selling more than three-quarters of a million copies in her native France and winning the 2000 "Grand Prix RTL-Lire." The book was translated into numerous languages including in English and sold in twenty-seven countries. It was published to acclaim in North America in 2003 as "I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere"." The book received much praise and is a library and school selection worldwide in several languages.

Gavalda's first novel, "Je l'aimais" ("Someone I Loved") was published in France in February 2002 and later that year in English. Inspired by the failure of her own marriage, it too was a major literary success and a bestseller and was followed by the short (96 pages) juvenile novel "35 kilos d'espoir" ("95 Pounds of Hope") that she said she wrote "to pay tribute to those of my students who were dunces in school but otherwise fantastic people".

In 2004, her third novel, "Ensemble c'est tout"," focused on the lives of four people living in an apartment house: a struggling young artist who works as an office cleaner at night, a young aristocrat misfit, a cook, and an elderly grandmother. The 600-page book is a bestseller in France and has been translated into English as "Hunting and Gathering".

As of 2007, her three books have sold more than 3 million copies in France [ [http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2008/02/27/03005-20080227ARTFIG00383-une-plume-qui-vaut-de-l-or-.php Le Figaro - Livres : Une plume qui vaut de l'or ] ] . "Ensemble c'est tout" was made into a successful movie in 2007 by Claude Berri, with Audrey Tautou and Guillaume Canet. The adaptation of her first novel, "Je l'aimais", is currently being filmed.

Divorced, and the mother of two, Gavalda lives in the small city of Melun, Seine-et-Marne, about 50 km southeast of Paris. In addition to writing novels, she also contributes to "Elle" magazine.

Works

*"Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part", 1999
*"35 kilos d'espoir", 2002
*"Je l'aimais", 2002
*"Ensemble, c'est tout", 2005
*"La Consolante", 2008

Works in English translation

*"I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere"
*"Someone I loved"
*"Hunting and Gathering", 2006
*"95 Pounds of Hope"

References

Источник: Anna Gavalda

См. также в других словарях:

  • hunting and gathering culture — ▪ anthropology also called  foraging culture        any group of people that depends primarily on wild foods for subsistence. Until about 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, when agriculture (agriculture, origins of) and animal domestication emerged in… …   Universalium

  • hunting and gathering society — Any human society that depends on hunting, fishing, or the gathering of wild plants for subsistence. Until с 8,000 years ago, all peoples were foragers of wild food. Many foraging peoples continued to practice their traditional way of life into… …   Universalium

  • Hunting and Gathering (film) — Infobox Film name = Hunting and Gathering (Ensemble, c est tout) caption = Promotional film poster director = Claude Berri producer = Claude Berri Nathalie Rheims(associate producer) Pierre Grunstein (associate producer) writer = Anna Gavalda… …   Wikipedia

  • hunting and gathering society — noun group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables; usually nomadic • Syn: ↑hunting and gathering tribe • Hypernyms: ↑tribal society • Member Meronyms: ↑hunter gatherer …   Useful english dictionary

  • hunting and gathering tribe — noun group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables; usually nomadic • Syn: ↑hunting and gathering society • Hypernyms: ↑tribal society • Member Meronyms: ↑hunter gatherer …   Useful english dictionary

  • Hunting And Gathering — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel: Zusammen ist man weniger allein Originaltitel: Ensemble, c est tout Produktionsland: Frankreich Erscheinungsjahr: 2007 Länge: 97 Minuten Originalsprache: Französisch …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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