Lit in Translation

Nathacha Appanah

Born 1973 · France, Mauritius

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    Goncourt 2025 · Shortlist

    La Nuit au cœur

    Title translated by AI:“Night in the Heart”

    Nathacha Appanah · 52 when first published

    Novel · 282 pages · Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:Three stories of women attacked by the men who shared their lives are woven together. The first is the narrator’s own, from the night she ran at twenty-five; she is the only one of the three still alive.