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La Nuit au cœur

“Night in the Heart” (title translated by AI)

Nathacha Appanah (born 1973)

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The narrator intertwines the accounts of three women attacked by their partners, starting with her own flight through the night at twenty-five. She alone survived, and she searches for the truest way to describe what was done to them, body and soul, when love turned into darkness.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
282 pages in the original
Genres
Autofiction (assigned by AI)
First published
2025 by Gallimard
Author's age
52 when first published
ISBN

9782073080028 (original)

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