{"product_id":"neversinkisbn-9781612195872","title":"Neversink","description":"\"A haunting, slim novel which has the mesmeric inevitability of a classical tragedy.\" --\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLa Femme de Gilles \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a fatal love triangle—written on the eve of World War II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet among the dusty lanes and rolling valleys of rural 1930s Belgium, \u003ci\u003eLa Femme de Gilles \u003c\/i\u003eis the tale of a young mother, Elisa, whose world is overturned when she discovers that her husband, Gilles, has fallen in love with her younger sister, Victorine. Devastated, Elisa unravels. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs controlled as Elena Ferrante's \u003ci\u003eThe Days of Abandonment \u003c\/i\u003eand as propulsive as Jenny Offill's \u003ci\u003eDept. of Speculation, La Femme de Gilles\u003c\/i\u003e is a hauntingly contemporary story of desperation and lust and obsession, from an essential early-feminist writer.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJust after her novel was first published in  1937, Madeleine Bourdouxhe disassociated herself from her publisher  (which had been taken over by the Nazis) and spent most of World War II  in Brussels, actively working for the resistance. Though she continued  to write, her work was largely overlooked by history . . . until now.“[A] novella about a devastating love triangle, finally translated into English.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eElle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“No book this year made me feel as hopeful for the future as this one, so clearly did it reveal women's past patriarchal oppression and the distance we have come over the course of the last few decades. Read it and rage and then do something.” —\u003cb\u003eKristin Iversen, \u003ci\u003eNylon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A lyrical but dark exploration of wifely devotion.”—\u003cb\u003eFlavorwire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The story of a tragic love triangle that will haunt the reader long after the last page.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Missourian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Quietly tragic...Though Bourdouxhe doesn’t rescue this character she’s created for us, she gave the women of her time one portrait of female suffering, made them less alone...”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Nuanced...[\u003ci\u003eLa Femme de Gilles\u003c\/i\u003e] is incredibly successful for its fierce skill at what we might now call Ferrante-esque immersion in the interiority of its female protagonist...Timely.”—\u003cb\u003e3:AM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"This 1937 novel...established Bourdouxhe as an early, essential feminist author...A heartrending study of the compromises a woman is willing to make to preserve her marriage.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(starred)\u003cb\u003eMadeleine Bourdouxhe \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Belgium in 1906. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eLa Femme de Gilles\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1937, but the outbreak of World War II interrupted her writing career, and her second book, \u003ci\u003eA la recherche de Marie \u003c\/i\u003ewasn't published until 1943. A volume of shorts stories, \u003ci\u003eA Nail\u003c\/i\u003e, a Rose, first appeared in English in 1989, followed by translations of \u003ci\u003eLa Femme de Gilles\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA la recherche de Marie\u003c\/i\u003e. Bourdouxhe died in 1996.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304401031397,"sku":"NP9781612195872","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781612195872.jpg?v=1730757213","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/neversinkisbn-9781612195872","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}