Lit in Translation

Swimming Home

Swimming Home

Deborah Levy (born 1959)

English editions

Written in English

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When Joe and his family reach their holiday villa above Nice, he thinks he sees a corpse floating in the pool. It is a young woman, alive and well: Kitty Finch, a self-styled botanist with green nail varnish, who climbs out naked and walks straight into the family's summer. Nobody can say why she has come or what she wants from them, and Joe's wife, enigmatic as ever, allows her to stay.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Set in
France
First published
2011
Author's age
52 when first published
ISBN

9781620401699 (Bloomsbury Publishing, United States)

9781911508083 (And Other Stories, United Kingdom)

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