{"product_id":"9781934137550","title":"The Child","description":"Author: Pascale Kramer\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781934137550\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Jan 2013\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Intense and bravely uncompromising. An adult study of pain, thwarted affection, and guarded privacies in a world at the edge of violent public breakdown. An impressive achievement.\" -\u003cb\u003eDAVID MALOUF\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eRansom: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimone and Claude live in a house with a lush garden, surrounded by a hedge that barely protects them from the growing violence and unrest in their low-income neighborhood. Simone mourns the loss of youth and possibility as Claude, a gym teacher who has been diagnosed with cancer, edges toward death. This is an unflinching portrait of a couple ravaged by illness and locked into mutual isolation-that is, until the arrival of a young boy brings hope and upsets their delicate \u003ci\u003edanse macabre\u003c\/i\u003e to devastating effect.\u003cbr\u003ePascale Kramer dissects romantic love's psychic carnage while unsentimentally revealing the unique beauty born of an adult's love for a child. As does Marguerite Duras, she wields spare language like a club and plumbs emotional depths rarely reached outside of poetry. A brilliant collision of hope and despair, \u003ci\u003eThe Child\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePascale Kramer\u003c\/b\u003e, recipient of the 2017 Swiss Grand Prize for Literature, is the author of fourteen books, including three novels published in English: \u003ci\u003eThe Living\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Child\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAutopsy of a Father\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Geneva, she has worked in Los Angeles, and now lives in Paris, where she directs a documentary film festival about children's rights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867099680926,"sku":"ADS-9781934137550","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781934137550.jpg?v=1779429906","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781934137550","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}