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- Herausgeber: Pushkin Press
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
How can you mend a broken heart? Do you write a letter to the woman who left you - and post it to an imaginary address? Buy a new watch, to reset your life? Or get rid of the jacket you wore every time you argued, because it was in some way ... responsible?Combining the wry musings of a rejected lover with playful drawings in just three colours - red, black and white - bestselling author of The Red Notebook, Antoine Laurain, and renowned street artist Le Sonneur have created a striking addition to the literature of unrequited love.
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Antoine Laurain lives in Paris. His award-winning novels have been translated into fourteen languages and have sold more than 200,000 copies in English. The President’s Hat was a Waterstones Book Club and Indies Introduce selection, and The Red Notebook was on the Indie Next list.
Le Sonneur is a contemporary Parisian artist. His work tells the story of Paris and the people who live there. His artwork is often placed in public spaces with an invitation to passers-by to interact with the work, for example by picking up a key or calling a telephone number.
Jane Aitken is a publisher and translator from the French.
Praise for The Readers’ Room:
‘The plot blends mystery with comedy to great effect, and, as ever, Laurain has fun at the expense of his countrymen’
Daily Mail
‘A cracking literary murder mystery’
Tatler
‘Laurain has spun a fantastically intricate web here, where the smallest detail could be significant, and, no matter how sure you are that you’ve grasped it, he is one step ahead. Joyously far-fetched and metafictional’
The Herald
‘A brief blackly comic masterpiece … An observation on life’s rich tapestry; absurd, witty, truthful and engaging’
Crime Time
Praise for The Red Notebook:
‘A clever, funny novel … a masterpiece of Parisian perfection’
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall
‘This is in equal parts an offbeat romance, detective story and a clarion call for metropolitans to look after their neighbours … Reading The Red Notebook is a little like finding a gem among the bric-a-brac in a local brocante’
The Telegraph
‘Resist this novel if you can; it’s the very quintessence of French romance’
The Times
‘Soaked in Parisian atmosphere, this lovely, clever, funny novel will have you rushing to the Eurostar post-haste … A gem’
Daily Mail
Praise for The President’s Hat:
‘A hymn to la vie Parisienne … enjoy it for its fabulistic narrative, and the way it teeters pleasantly on the edge of Gallic whimsy’
The Guardian
‘Flawless … a funny, clever, feel-good social satire with the page-turning quality of a great detective novel’
Rosie Goldsmith
‘A fable of romance and redemption’
The Telegraph
‘Part eccentric romance, part detective story … this book makes perfect holiday reading’
The Lady
‘Its gentle satirical humor reminded me of Jacques Tati’s classic films, and, no, you don’t have to know French politics to enjoy this novel’
Library Journal
Red Is My Heart
ANTOINE LAURAIN
Also by Antoine Laurain:
The Readers’ Room
Vintage 1954
Smoking Kills
The Portrait
French Rhapsody
The Red Notebook
The President’s Hat
Red Is My Heart
ANTOINE LAURAIN
Translated by Jane Aitken
Pushkin Press
A Gallic Book
First published in France as Et mon Coeur se serra
by Flammarion, 2021
Copyright © Flammarion, Paris, 2021
English translation copyright © Gallic Books, 2022
First published in Great Britain in 2022 by
Gallic Books, 12 Eccleston Street
London, SW1W 9RT
This book is copyright under the Berne Convention
No reproduction without permission
All rights reserved
A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 9781805333586
Printed in the UK by CPI (CR0 4YY)
2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Today I posted
you a letter, a very beautiful letter,
three carefully drafted pages written with a
medium-nib Cross fountain pen in black ink.
When I went to write your address on the envelope,
my hand trembled and I invented a new one.
An address that does not exist, a random
number in an imaginary street which I placed
in an arrondissement on the other side of the city.
8 Rue Pierre-François-Flarmentier, Paris 15.
I posted the letter in the yellow postbox.
You will never read it.
I wonder what will become of my envelope –
will someone at the post office open it and read
the three pages? Is there a procedure for letters
