Voice Over

Finalist for Best Translated Book of 2008 by the Hermeneutic Circle

French Voices Award

A lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris's gare du Nord train station. Obsessed with a man attached to another woman, she wanders through the world of dinner parties, shopping excursions, and chance sexual encounters with a sense of haunting expectation. As something begins to happen between her and the man she loves, she finds herself at a crossroads, pitting her desire against her sanity. This smashing debut novel sparkles with mordant humor and sexy charm.“Not only is it the finest first novel I have read in many years, but it is, quite simply, one of the most original and brilliantly executed works of fiction by any contemporary writer I know of.” –Paul Auster


“Recalls the most disturbing moments in Marguerite Duras's work … [A] strange, sinister and compelling novel.” –Financial Times


“An infrared view of Sex and the City, a snapshot plunged in an acrid bath.” –Globe and Mail


“With an extraordinary sense of the mechanisms of love and the empathy of a saint for the human race, Céline Curiol gives us the most original and the best new book of the year.” –Marie Claire


“The product of exquisite craft … it manages to be technically accomplished while being technically daring.” –Women's Review of BooksCÉLINE CURIOL is a journalist who has worked for various French media, including Libération, Radio France, and BBC Afrique. Her second novel and a travel book on Sierra Leone have recently been published in France. Originally from Lyon, Curiol lives in New York City, where she is at work on her
third novel.