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The Perfect Nanny (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143132172)
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x*Soon to be an HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Maya Erskine* She has the keys to their apartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her. One of the 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR of The New York Times Book Review, by the author of Ad鑞e, Sex and Lies, In the Country of Others, and Watch Us Dance "A great novel . . . Incredibly engaging and disturbing . . . Slimani has us in her thrall." --Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger "One of the most important books of the year. You can't unread it." --Barrie Hardymon, NPR's Weekend Edition
When Myriam decides to return to work as a lawyer after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their son and daughter. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau. Building tension with every page, The Perfect Nanny is a compulsive, riveting, bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity, motherhood, and madness--and the American debut of an immensely talented writer.
Author: Leila Slimani
ISBN-10: 0143132172
ISBN-13: 9780143132172
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 01/09/2018
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 10/30/2017
Booklist 11/15/2017 pg. 23
Library Journal 12/01/2017
When Myriam decides to return to work as a lawyer after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their son and daughter. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau. Building tension with every page, The Perfect Nanny is a compulsive, riveting, bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity, motherhood, and madness--and the American debut of an immensely talented writer.
Author: Leila Slimani
ISBN-10: 0143132172
ISBN-13: 9780143132172
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 01/09/2018
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 10/30/2017
Booklist 11/15/2017 pg. 23
Library Journal 12/01/2017
By Leila Slimani
xLeila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt, which she won for The Perfect Nanny. Her first novel, Ad鑞e, about a sex-addicted woman in Paris, won the La Mamounia Prize for the best book by a Moroccan author written in French and gave rise to her nonfiction book Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World. A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, Slimani is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture and was ranked #2 on Vanity Fair France's annual list of the Fifty Most Influential French People in the World. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she now lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.
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