A mystical and deeply moving tale, from the author of one of the world's most ambitious literary projects
Manuela Draeger is one of French author Antoine Volodine’s numerous heteronyms and she therefore belongs to a community of imaginary authors that includes Lutz Bassmann and Elli Kronauer. Since 2002, she has published novels for adolescents. She has one other title available in English translation (
In the Time of the Blue Ball) to go along with five Volodine novels in translation and one by Lutz Bassmann.
J. T. Mahany is a graduate of the masters program in literary translation studies at the University of Rochester and received his MFA from the University of Arkansas. His translation of Antoine Volodine's
Bardo or Not Bardo won the inaugural Albertine Prize in 2017.
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STRONG MEDIA CAMPAIGN: To highlight the diversity of Volodine's world of pseudonyms, Three Percent will host a series of excerpts, posts, reivews, and interviews to coincide with the publication of this Draeger book.
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