{"product_id":"the-child-pascale-kramer-9781934137550","title":"The Child","description":"\"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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pascale Kramer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1934137553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934137550\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Pascale Kramer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46217038594303,"sku":"9781934137550","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_204ac9bb-3681-41a6-be01-2c1bc7c4990d.jpg?v=1728514097","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-child-pascale-kramer-9781934137550","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}