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Faces on the Tip of My Tongue
Faces on the Tip of My Tongue | Emmanuelle Pagano
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Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with compassion. The late wedding guest isnt your cousin but a drunken chancer. The driver who gives you a lift isnt going anywhere but off the road. Snow settles on your car in summer and the sequins found between the pages of a borrowed novel will make your fortune. Paganos stories weave together the mad, the mysterious and the dispossessed of a rural French community with honesty and humour. A superb, cumulative collection from a unique French voice. Why Peirene chose to publish this book: This is a spellbinding web of stories about people on the periphery. Pagano makes rural France her subject matter. She invokes the closeness of a local community and the links between the inhabitants lives. But then she reminds us how little we know of each other. Devastatingly beautiful. Le Soir, Belgium A treasure hunt that you can follow from title to title...fine-tipped drawings of little bits of the world that attach themselves to each other imperceptibly. Xavier Houssin, Le Monde Pagano succeeds because of the range of her insight and the skill with which she shifts register: from wistfulness to blunt force, or from fantasy to naturalism. Chris Power, The Guardian Endlessly beautiful and poignant. Le Monde books of the year 2012 With animal writing, Emmanuelle Pagano invites herself to the side of rebels and solitaries. Marine Landrot, Tlrama
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squirrelbrain
squirrelbrain
Faces on the Tip of My Tongue | Emmanuelle Pagano
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A quirky collection of short stories, set in rural France, and all interlinked in some way. The title is very apt as all of the characters are unnamed and a bit shadowy and ethereal.

I think that there was only one story I struggled with, perhaps because I didn‘t fully understand it. I loved the last one the most, about books and reading.

Thank you so much for gifting this to me Jess @jhod 😘 - hope you‘re doing OK?

AnneCecilie I think every booklover will love the last story the most. Which story did you struggle with? 4y
BarbaraBB All these squirrels 😀😘 4y
squirrelbrain There‘s a *lot* more on their shelves (and elsewhere in the house)! @BarbaraBB 4y
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squirrelbrain @AnneCecilie - it was the one called ‘Three Press-ups and Unable to Die‘. I think I was losing the thread of who was who by that stage and I couldn‘t work out who was telling the tale. I picked up the thread after that though.... 4y
jhod Hi Helen! Glad you enjoyed it! I have just submitted an essay and having a glass of wine so I am good! Letter coming your way tomorrow xx 4y
squirrelbrain At least you had the wine after the essay and not before @jhod ! 🤣 I look forward to hearing your news....😘 4y
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CaroPi
CaroPi
Faces on the Tip of My Tongue | Emmanuelle Pagano
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This is a beautiful collection of #shortstories translated from French. But is recommended to read them as a book because some of them are related.

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AnneCecilie
AnneCecilie
Faces on the Tip of My Tongue | Emmanuelle Pagano
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A collection of linked short stories and that are my favorite kind of short stories.

We meet the mother who accidentally invites a stranger to her daughter‘s wedding, the young girl that kills a fox, a boy who stands in drivers blind spot, the driver that stops, and my favorite story at the end about books and reading.

It days on the blurb that the stories take place in rural France and I guess I was hoping for more Frenchness.

AnneCecilie 4th book finished for #AwesomeAugust @Andrew65 4y
Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 4y
AnneCecilie This book has its own square at the #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks 4y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Great progress!! 4y
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Emilymdxn
Emilymdxn
Faces on the Tip of My Tongue | Emmanuelle Pagano
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I loved this book of short stories (or was it a novel?) linking various unnamed characters in a small French town. It was everything I want from a #bookerinternational2020 book - just the right amount enigmatic that I wanted to think about it deeply but not so self consciously meta or literary that it made me roll my eyes. Very worthy of a place on the shortlist! Beautiful writing and translation

Megabooks Stacked!!! Sounds good. 4y
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rockpools
rockpools
Faces on the Tip of My Tongue | Emmanuelle Pagano
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Perfectly titled. Short stories link together in a novel of unnamed characters you sort-of recognise but can‘t always quite place. Set in the mountains and winding roads of rural France, we meet the characters who call this place home, even if they‘re desperate to leave. Melancholy, disorientating and beautifully written - I really liked this one.

#BookerInternational2020 #ReadingEurope2020 #France @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle

Cathythoughts Nice review & pic 👍🏻✨✨✨✨✨ 4y
Cinfhen Exactly what @Cathythoughts said 🧡🧡🧡 4y
Reggie The picture for some reason makes me hungry for pumpkin pie but the review makes me want to read the book! 4y
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BarbaraBB Perfect picture 👌 4y
rockpools @Reggie 😂😂😂 I need to come to the US for a food tasting tour. Pumpkin pie. Grits. There‘s a bunch of others I haven‘t got a clue about... Meantime, I think you‘d like the book! 4y
rockpools @BarbaraBB @Cinfhen @Cathythoughts Thank you! Have to catch whatever sun‘s about at the moment! 4y
Lcsmcat Sounds interesting. Stacked. 4y
rockpools @Lcsmcat 👍 Hope you enjoy it! 4y
Librarybelle Sounds interesting! 4y
Lcsmcat @RachelO Thanks. And if you do come to the US to try pumpkin pie and grits, come to the southeast. Nobody else can make grits you‘d want to eat. 😀 4y
rockpools @Lcsmcat Noted! I keep finding grits in recipe books, but I‘m 100% certain I wouldn‘t want to eat it (them? It?) if I made it myself! 4y
rockpools @Librarybelle 😊👍 4y
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rockpools
rockpools
Faces on the Tip of My Tongue | Emmanuelle Pagano
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The #internationalbooker longlist is out! I‘ve loved watching this one unfold over the last few years, so this year I‘m going to actually try and read some (aiming for 4) of them now (rather than 6 years later).

Starting with the tagged - short stories from rural France. Not sure where it‘s going to go, but so far it‘s beautiful- feels almost like Tove Janssen.

Here‘s the list if you need it
https://thebookerprizes.com/international-booker/2020

rockpools AND this‘ll be my #readingeurope2020 #france 🇫🇷 🎉🎉🎉 4y
Hoopiefoot Enjoy! I always like trying to read a few of the long list too. 4y
rockpools @Hoopiefoot Thanks - you too! So many I hadn‘t heard of this year. 4y
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