- Prix Goncourt 2005 · Shortlist
Cliffs
Falaises
Olivier Adam (born 1974)
Translated by Sue Rose
English editions
In EnglishCliffs
Pushkin Press · United Kingdom · 2007 · 147 pages
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On a hotel balcony in Étretat, a man spends the night facing the cliffs where his mother leapt to her death twenty years ago, coaxing memories of a brutal father, a vanished brother, Paris, and his own survival.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 206 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France
- First published
- 2005 by Éditions de l'Olivier
- Author's age
- 31 when first published
- ISBN
9782879295046 (original)
9781901285758 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)