Presented by Lisez l'Europe
Our upcoming book club will feature a
German novel, and will take place
Wednesday November 17 at 6:30 pm through the online platform Zoom.
The book chosen for this session is
"Daughters", by Lucy Fricke. The discussion will be held in French and moderated by
Marie-Pierre Poulin, librarian at the Goethe-Institut Montreal.
Please confirm your presence before November 16 at the following address:
lisezleurope-mtl@goethe.de.
About the book:
Lucy Fricke’s Daughters tells the story of two women, pushing forty, on a road trip across Europe, each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way. A bestseller and booksellers’ favourite in Germany, Daughters evokes laughter and tears by way of life and death, friendship and family.
“In this wildly funny novel, women-on-the-edge-of-a-nervous-breakdown Betty and Martha take us on a madcap journey through Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Greece, as they try to resolve their relationships with their all-too frail and human fathers. Sinéad Crowe’s seamless translation captures the humour, self-irony, honesty and wisdom of Betty’s lively narrative.”
- Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of Olga Tokarczuk
Winner of the 2018 Bavarian Book Prize. (vq-books.eu)
About the author:
Lucy Fricke, born in Hamburg in 1974, has been awarded several prizes for her work. She was recently a resident at the German Academy in Rome and at Ledig House, New York. Daughters is her fourth novel, for which she received the Bavarian Book Prize in 2018. Lucy Fricke also runs HAM.LIT, Hamburg’s first live festival for young literature and music. She lives in Berlin. (vq-books.eu)
The book can be obtained (in French) at the following bookstores:
Librairie Gallimard: (10% discount for Lisez l’Europe members)
librairie@gallimardmontreal.com
514 499-2012
Librairie Michel Fortin
mfortin@librairiemichelfortin.com
514 849-5719
Librairie du Square au Carré St-Louis:
librairiedusquare@librairiedusquare.com
514 845-7617
Librairie du Square - Outremont:
outremont@librairiedusquare.com
514 303-0612
Also available as an eBook on
amazon.ca.
French copies are also available through the
Grande Bibliothèque and the
Montreal public library system. A
German copy is available through the
Goethe-Institut Montreal.
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